Editorial: Reading recovery failing NZ kids...
However, just-published research by Massey University's Institute of Education suggests the programme has completely failed to achieve its target of reducing the "long tail" of literacy underachievement. What is more, the institute says the failure has been known about at least since 2006, but the ministry continues to put all its eggs in the reading recovery basket....
The report's authors conclude that the reading recovery programme is failing those who most need it because it is "fundamentally flawed".
But confronted by evidence that reading recovery is not narrowing the gap between good and bad readers, and that decile 3 Titahi Bay School has been able to buck the national trend by employing the alternative strategies advocated by Massey's researchers, it behoves the ministry to take a fresh look at its national literacy strategy.
Five more years of doing the same thing will not deliver a different result.
Five more years of doing the same thing will not deliver a different result.
How can teachers and the Ministry of Education be so wrong about how to teach children to read?
Why do they ignore their poor results?
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