![]() Given enough time around other humans, the vast majority of youngsters will learn to walk upright and talk. While reading is a foundational skill, it is not a natural one. Now the most fundamental skill that society asks them to pass along is also being completely shaken up. ![]() Elementary-school teachers are already having to recalibrate after two years of disruption vicious fighting about public-health mandates as well as what kids should be taught about race and gender and a widespread parental freak-out about how little their children have learned during the pandemic. The timing for such a dramatic change feels especially challenging. And in May, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that elementary schools in the biggest district in the country would be required to adopt a phonics-based reading program. ![]() ![]() So far this year, five states have passed laws that require training for teachers in phonics-based reading techniques, adding to the 13 that passed such laws last year. His petition is part of an enormous rethink of reading instruction that is sweeping the U.S. Weaver and his co-petitioners-including civil rights, educational, and literacy groups-want schools to spend more time in the youngest grades teaching the sounds that make up words and the letters that represent those sounds. ![]()
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