Only one in three fourth-graders reads proficiently in Georgia, reports Atlanta News First. Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to sign new laws requiring schools to use research-based reading methods and teacher-ed programs to train teachers in the “science of reading,” reports Andy Pierrotti.
Two legislators who are former teachers, a Democrat and a Republican, led the charge to ban “three cueing,” which encourages children to use pictures and context clues, rather than decoding, to understand what they read.
“This method did not teach him to read,” said state Sen. RaShaun Kemp, D-Atlanta, who read a letter from a parent on the Senate floor. “It taught him to guess, leaving him anxious, struggling, and believing he wasn’t capable for his first five years of school.”
The law also prohibits Georgia schools from using Reading Recovery for struggling first-graders, citing a 2023 University of Delaware study which found the program left students worse off in the long run.
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The taxpayer funded Madison School District long used Reading Recovery…
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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