Legislation and Literacy: Wisconsin Early Reading Curriculum Selection
mp3 audio | transcript. Most school districts in the state now use a balanced literacy approach called “three-cueing,” that will now be illegal in all public and private schools.
The change comes at a time when fewer than 40 percent of third graders were proficient in reading on the most recent Wisconsin Forward Exam. Wisconsin’s achievement gap between Black and white fourth grade students in reading has often been the worst in the nation.
Joint Finance Committee FINALIZES reading curriculum list with the highest-quality options! 🎆🎇🎇🎆
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Wisconsin’s 2024 curriculum list is final:
The ELCC recommendations carry the day, giving Wisconsin the strongest ELA curriculum list in the country! 👏
Also, the lobbyist box is empty. 👏
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Curious local media coverage.
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Legislation and Reading: The Wisconsin Experience 2004-
“Well, it’s kind of too bad that we’ve got the smartest people at our universities, and yet we have to create a law to tell them how to teach.”
The data clearly indicate that being able to read is not a requirement for graduation at (Madison) East, especially if you are black or Hispanic”
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“An emphasis on adult employment”
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