NYC Public Schools revamp the way they teach reading

[get these nets]

New York City public schools roll out new reading program​

May 9, 2023



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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City is changing the way it teaches reading, getting children hooked on phonics, after Schools Chancellor David Banks concluded public schools have been teaching reading the wrong way for the last 20 years.

Mayor Eric Adams, Banks and other school officials rolled out the program Tuesday morning at a presentation in Brooklyn.

Schools will now adopt one of three curriculums using phonics, which teach how to decode letter sounds instead of more recently employed methods like using picture clues to guess words.

Half of the districts will begin the program in September; the others will start in 2024.

Waivers to opt out will be considered for schools where more than 85% of students are proficient in reading, a threshold that only about 20 schools meet.


The overhaul will be a massive undertaking. Teachers will have to learn new strategies.

But the mayor, who has dyslexia, says reading needs to be a priority.

"'New York City Reads' is a historic curriculum shift in the largest school district in the nation that will bring proven science-of-reading and phonics-based methods to all of our public-school students, starting with our early childhood programs and our elementary schools," Adams said in a statement released ahead of Tuesday's rollout. "We owe it to our young people, and we owe it to our educators who have been working hard to teach without access to the right tools. Through this campaign, New York City is finally setting up our students and teachers for success."

About half of city children in grades three through eight are not proficient in reading.

Black, Latino and low-income children fare even worse.


According to the Departments of Education in New York City and New York State:

In 2019 only 53.3 % of NYC third graders were proficient in English language arts, which includes reading.

In 2022 the rate of proficiency had fallen to 49.2%

Across New York State, 52.3% of third graders were proficient in English language arts in 2019.

That rate had fallen to 46% in 2022.

 

[Mike809]

doubt this will help .

A kid that goes to school to actually learn and pay attention , will learn no matter the method used.
One that just go to get a checkmark during the attendance call , will gain nothing.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

It's hard for a child to retain much of the information, if the parent is struggling to make ends meet in a city like New York.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

How many of these kids have English speaking parents at home

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

How in the hell are you not proficient in reading if all you do is text message all day

 

[TL15]

doubt this will help .

A kid that goes to school to actually learn and pay attention , will learn no matter the method used.
One that just go to get a checkmark during the attendance call , will gain nothing.

Yea but phonics based learning is a much better way to learn to read. They were doing pictures and guessing words before

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

It's hard for a child to retain much of the information, if the parent is struggling to make ends meet in a city like New York.

This is the only correct response. Funny how this program js here 20 years later. I am willing to bet my bottom dollar that it works this time because for those people who have recently arrived to New York, their kids will be enrolled in the public school system, and I will bet that education is a focus and a priority within the home. To me, money plays a factor in the struggle but to act like culture towards education at this point isn't the deciding factor is ignorant.

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Hoping for the best

 

[Wild self]

Cannot wait for A.I. to be a more effective teacher and put the bad portion of human teachers outta work.

 

[MajesticLion]

Groping at the elephant.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Cannot wait for A.I. to be a more effective teacher and put the bad portion of human teachers outta work.

These bad azz kids don't listen to humans. What makes you thing they're gonna listen to Professor GPT?

 

[get these nets]

This is the only correct response. Funny how this program js here 20 years later. I am willing to bet my bottom dollar that it works this time because for those people who have recently arrived to New York, their kids will be enrolled in the public school system, and I will bet that education is a focus and a priority within the home. To me, money plays a factor in the struggle but to act like culture towards education at this point isn't the deciding factor is ignorant.

Yes, I've read that education/achievement gaps exist before the children even enter formal schooling. The amount of words they've been exposed to, books they've been read to , etc.
Household culture and values/priorities. If your parents care about education, the public schools can give you the tools to build on that foundation of support. If they don't, student will have another hurdle in front of them, on top of the external ones.
Educators and public figures can't say this publicly, but I agree with you that it's true.


Previous Mayor did a great thing by getting free universal pre-K done.

More detailed article and full video of press conference is in parallel thread in the other subforum.

 

[TEH]

These bad azz kids don't listen to humans. What makes you thing they're gonna listen to Professor GPT?

Professor GPT comes with a taser to protect it’s expensive hardware.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

stats were from covid era
that would have been the perfect time to just start them on youtube for kids (for the younger ones) or some other toy media based shyt. my niece could read basic words and spell her name and she started prek at 3. before that all she learned was from youtube.

 

[Black Excellence]

Yes, I've read that education/achievement gaps exist before the children even enter formal schooling. The amount of words they've been exposed to, books they've been read, etc.
Household culture and values/priorities. If your parents care about education, the public schools can give them the tools to build on that foundation of support. If they don't, student will have have another hurdle in front of them, on top of the external ones.
Educators and public figures can't say this publicly, but I agree with you that it's true.


Previous Mayor did a great thing by getting free universal pre-K done.

More detailed article and full video of press conference is in parallel thread in the other subforum.

Shout-out my pops, grew up with just him cuz moms was bullshytting…he used to have a physical blackboard with chalk that I had to do math on the weekends, he bought hooked on phonics for me when I was struggling, took my TV away on the weekdays…like you said it really starts at home.