![]() Indeed, on Thursday the Georgia Board of Education authorized new public school teaching standards for English Language Arts that were written to align with the new laws. “The study of the brain is in its infancy, and yet we’re making great leaps from that data and information to what we ought to be teaching kids.”Įven so, experts say there is plenty of research supporting phonics-based teaching. “You can’t just take the data and the information about the brain, and what it means, at face value,” Reinking said. That movement points to experiments done with magnetic resonance imaging - to examine the brain while a person reads - to bolster their argument that phonics is the best method for learning the skill.īut, while neuroscience may explain how people read, it doesn’t explain how to teach, said Reinking, who holds a courtesy post at the University of Georgia’s education college and is an emeritus education professor at Clemson University. He noted that Georgia is following numerous other states in adopting legislation under the banner of “science of reading,” which has become a movement. Reading scores fell during the pandemic but have been relatively flat or rising over the decades, according to results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, said literacy expert David Reinking. And Senate Bill 211 by Hickman calls for the creation of a panel to review current practices and make recommendations to the legislature.īut some educators say claims of a crisis are overblown. In addition to requiring state approval of teaching materials, House Bill 538 by Ballard mandates frequent literacy testing of K-3 students and the retraining of teachers. “We will never create an educated workforce if our children can’t read,” Hickman said. Billy Hickman, R-Statesboro, cited similar numbers while expressing worry about the future. ![]() ![]() Bethany Ballard, R-Warner Robins told fellow lawmakers. “Right now, between 36 and 56 percent of our state’s kids are not reading on grade level when they finish third grade.
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