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what we know. we know what works, there is a science of reading, and we need to implement it. as i said, some governors are doing it. others aren t. there are millions, maybe billions of dollars that have been spent and some have been spent, a lot spent the wrong way. sandra: great to have you here, bill. they are screening, i mean, we just went through in-depth the illinois report card, they reveal where kids are with their literacy rates and they are not good. and guess what, the state report card reveals and not just illinois, they are passing these kids along. there might be a single digit percent of kids who are reading at grade level and they ll graduate 99% of them. so they are just passing these kids through the system, sending them off to college or adulthood on not even reading at grade level in the 12th grade. that s exactly right. and you saw some of those kids
it. implementation. i am glad when issuing the report cards i did it every year, i ve had a wall chart, how states were performing, it was the thing a lot of the education establishment hated to see that performance up there on the wall, but that s how we assess and we should. kids lives are at stake literally if they can t read. sandra: if i could finish on the note of parental involvement, too, for those parents who want to get things right in the classroom, learning to read is just as important at home and they developed the love of reading. parents have to be so intimately involved and you can tie this all into, you know, the economic situation that we are in. if you ve got two parents working two jobs and they are not there, that s a big part of what happens with children s literacy rates in this country. it is not there s no easy answer here, bill. we all have to get involved and all have to help these kids. it s not easy work, but i
context cues. when we do that, we can have a student looking at the text of a word pony and they look at the picture and see the word they see a horse and you can see where we start to move away from learning how to read a word. and that s kind of where we have been the last at least decade is we have moved away from explicit and systematic teaching to more of a balanced literacy kind of the thought of learning to read from loving to read and we need to refocus back on teaching kids how to read. sandra: i think it s important our audience understands what the new method is that parents and educators are speaking out about, at a time when we are having serious problems with our literacy rates in this country, only to just have those kids pass on through, graduate them, send them out to the world, some not even reading at basic grade level when they
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