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Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared i... by Clubber on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:57PM (#36009250)
>Alabama invested heavily in training on the science of reading, then known as phonics, in the early 2000s, and scores rose.

When did the stop teaching that and why? I was thought that way in the 70s.

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Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared i... by polski-g on Saturday May 20, 2023 @12:05AM (#36009288)
According to teachers, they hate teaching phonics because their method is better because they invented it.

It's like programmers deciding to write a 3d game in Java instead of the known and functional method of c++.

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Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared i... by earleybird on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:04AM (#36009963)
Was that a Minecraft reference?
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Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared i... by polski-g on Saturday May 20, 2023 @09:02AM (#36011597)
Indeed.
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Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared i... by csnover on Saturday May 20, 2023 @01:56AM (#36009685)
The link in the article about emphasising phonics[0] vaguely answers that question in the reverse, in terms of what was being taught instead; a podcast series from 2022 called Sold a Story[1] (transcripts also available at the link) gives a much more detailed answer about why.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/phonics-science-reading-c715dea43...

[1] https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

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Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared i... by ChoGGi on Saturday May 20, 2023 @01:24PM (#36013773)
They started teaching three cues instead.
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