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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://edsource.org/2024/berkeley-schools-use-a-discredited-reading-curriculum-why-is-it-still-in-classrooms/704503?amp=1

“And though the lawsuit settled in 2021, the district’s method of teaching reading, a balanced literacy curriculum developed by Columbia University Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins called Units of Study, remains in place.

Rather than teaching students to sound out letters, the curriculum relies on a method called three-cueing — where students use context clues like pictures to figure out words — that has now been discredited and banned in several states. Some Berkeley teachers still use cueing, while others have dropped the discredited practice.”

Why are some still clinging to Calkins, when it’s been discredited and phonics is proven to work?[/quote]Because it feels progressive, while phonics feels very old school, conservative, Christian-private-school-y[/quote]

Ha, true, best comment yet.

Imagine getting a B.A. (or worse, an M.Ed.) and realizing you have nothing more to offer than Mary Ingalls did 150 years ago.  And that your education and its associated research is a farce, because we've known how to teaching reading, writing, and mathematics for thousands of years.[/quote]
.that's not really how it works.  Yes....it's good to not be beholden to these s** programs, but no - they're not 100 percent bad, and yes, teachers can find their way though. It's just when admin forces it that it's a problem .[/quote]

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