The Tony Evers approach to reading (a failure from Day One) is being shoved out the door.
...Dollhopf is in her 29th year of teaching. She loves the work, loves the kids. But, she admitted, in fall 2021, 69% of her students were reading below expectations. Changing the way she taught wasn’t easy for her — nor for a lot of other Cudahy teachers. But standing pat wasn’t good either. ...
...reading scores among Cudahy students weren’t that great before the pandemic began in 2020 — and then they slid. In the 2018-19 school year, 36% of third- through eighth-graders were rated as proficient or advanced in English language arts on Wisconsin’s Forward exams, while 28% were rated as “below basic” and 36% as basic. In 2020-21, the percentage of proficient or advanced students was 27%, nine points lower, while the “below basic” totally had gone up four points to 32%. ...
The effective reading curriculum?
Phonics. Exactly what Tony Evers & Co. decried as 'useless repetition and memorization' 30 years ago.
Then Evers brought "useless" to the Governor's office!
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