NYC DOE falls short of preparing students with reading skills: advocatesBy Cayla Bamberger
May 2, 2022
Families and their advocates across New York City are sounding the alarm that schools have fallen short of preparing all students to learn how to read.
As of Monday, 70 organizations had signed onto a “Call to Collective Action,” pledging to fight for science-backed reading instruction with proper support in all city schools.
“Every parent sends their child to school assuming they will be taught to read,” said Kim Sweet, the executive director of Advocates for Children. “Yet when students struggle, parents often have to find help on their own.”
“As a city, we need to stop accepting that unacceptable outcome and provide the literacy instruction and support needed to make all children proficient readers,” she said.
Alongside the letter, a new report from Advocates for Children on Monday pushed for coordinated efforts across the nation’s largest school system to use evidence-based literacy curriculum, and support the teachers implementing those lesson plans.
Less than half of all 3rd through 8th graders in New York City were proficient in reading in 2019, according to state test data cited in the report. National studies suggest the pandemic and school closures likely made matters worse for students already trailing literacy benchmarks.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/nyc-students-struggle-to-get-the-reading-help-they-need/
