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Opinion: Why SC is wrong to 'jump on the bandwagon' of 'science of reading' movement


Opinion: Why SC is wrong to jump on the bandwagon of science of reading movement
Greenville News
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Paul Thomas EdD, is an education professor at Furman University.
South Carolina is poised with Bill 3613 to continue the historical failures of addressing reading in South Carolina through micromanaging legislation that has not resulted in improving home, community, individual equity or learning outcomes for students living in poverty, Black students, Emergent Bilinguals, or students with special needs.
Currently, I am in year 37 of teaching in SC, serving as a high school English teacher at Woodruff High for 18 years before moving to teacher education at Furman University for the past 19 years. I entered education in SC in 1984, the first days of the accountability movement in our state. ....

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Is there really a 'science of reading' that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?


Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?
Valerie Strauss
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One of the longest-running education debates commonly referred to as a war has been over how to teach reading. It started in the 1800s, when Horace Mann, often called “the father of public education” in the United States, argued against teaching the explicit sounds of each letter. He worried that students would concentrate on sounding out words rather than learning how to read for comprehension, so he argued that students should learn to read whole words instead.
Thus began the fight over teaching phonics or “whole language” and more recently what is known as “balanced literacy.” We’ve also been hearing declarations that a “science of reading” proves that employing phonics in a particular war is the best and right path to teach young children how to read. ....

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