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Re:Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public sch... by Calavar on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:39AM (#34806365)
Title of that article: "NJ 4th Graders Score Low on Literacy, Still Ahead of Nation"

Throwing more money at the problem often makes some progress, but it's not always a definitive solution. Tough problems usually involve reorganizing processes, which tends to be harder than spending more money or recruiting more talented people.

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Re:Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public sch... by ch4s3 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:54AM (#34806744)
It doesn't help that teaching programs in universities hold anti-science views about reading and reading comprehension and still cling to whole language nonsense. Furthermore they often reject broad cultural knowledge and vocabulary as key components of reading comprehension and insist that (despite evidence to the contrary) that it is a discrete skill that can be built in a vacuum.
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