[I'm most disappointed by] funding cuts for Reading First, a federally funded program that would implement scientifically based reading instructional and assessment tools to
early reading instruction so children would be reading proficiently at the end of third grade.
Not exact matches
This is partially because I forgot to
read the
instructions for a recipe contest
earlier this year and had made something else...
so why waste a recipe?!
We were lucky enough to have Jo's help in person but if we knew of her book
earlier on we would easily been able to follow the techniques from her book which is just
so easy to
read and gives such clear
instructions on her methods.
This is partially because I forgot to
read the
instructions for a recipe contest
earlier this year and had made something else...
so why waste a recipe?!
In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade
reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math
instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the
early grades
so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.
It's ironic: Education reformers are
so united behind the Common Core standards, and yet 1) those very standards explicitly endorse scientifically based
reading instruction, and 2) the focus on the importance of «
reading complex text» appears to come at the expense of
early reading instruction.
Snow outlined how
early literacy received
so much attention following the Carnegie Corporation's research, that it led to the creation of
Reading First, a federally - funded program for improving
early literacy
instruction in schools.