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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current 6th-9th graders were all taught to read and write using Lucy Calkins.  That program has huge issues and it's negative effects will last a very long time.

Current 5th-6th graders also missed key years of education when schools were closed for COVID and teaching was only virtual.  Current 5th graders (so the 4th grade scores from last year) had virtual kindergarten.  I'm completely unsurprised that they have weaker reading skills.

Current 4th graders had many kids who missed preschool entirely because schools were closed, plus kindergarten was masked and there were still lots of COVID interruptions.  I'd be unsurprised if there are still issues.

Schools now are explicitly teaching phonics and that's a good thing, but we have a large cohort of kids going through the system right now who have major gaps.  [/quote]

+1, although I think the scores the video is going off are from current sixth graders (4th grade NWEP scores from the spring of '23-'24), but that group got even more virtual school so the effect is stronger. I think it'll take another cycle, at least, to tell how much of this is COVID. Hopefully that's it and it's only one group of students we failed quite so miserably.[/quote]

Literacy scores started dropping well before Covid.[/quote]

Look around 2013-2017, before the pandemic began.[/quote]Read up in the harm caused by the Lucy Caulkins curriculum.[/quote]

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