Phoenix68
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"The city will overhaul the way it teaches reading, requiring schools to use one of three specific curriculum options that focus on the science of reading, in an effort to boost literacy rates in a city where half of students are not proficient in reading.
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It’s a dramatic shift for the city’s public school system, which had previously allowed each of its schools to choose their own curriculum.
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For months, Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks have argued that the approach many schools had adopted, known as balanced literacy, which encourages guessing, using context and memorization, was failing students, particularly those with dyslexia or other language-based learning disabilities.
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The new curriculum options are based in what's often called the science of reading, or structured literacy, with an emphasis on phonics, with students sounding out syllables and bridging them together to form words and build vocabulary."
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It’s a dramatic shift for the city’s public school system, which had previously allowed each of its schools to choose their own curriculum.
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For months, Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks have argued that the approach many schools had adopted, known as balanced literacy, which encourages guessing, using context and memorization, was failing students, particularly those with dyslexia or other language-based learning disabilities.
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The new curriculum options are based in what's often called the science of reading, or structured literacy, with an emphasis on phonics, with students sounding out syllables and bridging them together to form words and build vocabulary."
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