Schools Chancellor David Banks had said a curriculum by Columbia University’s Teachers College should be replaced due to concerns about how it teaches kids to read. But parents report that it’s still in use.
Schools Chancellor David Banks said in March that a Teachers College reading curriculum wasn't producing "the results that we need." But it's still in use.Schools Chancellor David Banks said in March that a Teachers College reading curriculum wasn't producing "the results that we need." But it's still in use.a popular but controversial reading curriculum that many critics say is not effective in teaching the building blocks of literacy.
“It’s very frustrating … the audacity of a school system to knowingly use a curriculum that’s failing many students,” Dailey said.“Far too many of our kids do not have a solid, foundational core in literacy,” Banks said. “We've got to do things differently than we've been doing them because we're not getting the results that we need.
Supporters say the program instills a love of literature by giving children time to immerse themselves in books, and students in many schools that use it do well.in recent years as brain research has shown that phonics is the essential building block of reading. Some parents and education activists said they were disappointed and had hoped the school system would replace the entire curriculum immediately.
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