Have We Been Teaching Reading All Wrong?
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
English - April 28, 2023 11:05 - 16 minutes - 15 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsDaily News News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Only one in four third graders in Illinois can read at grade level, a gap that has only widened since the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this disparity in literacy, the Illinois State Board of Education is seeking to overhaul the way reading is taught by the state, and lawmakers want to give them a deadline to do it. Reset hears the latest on the proposed changes from Cassie Walker Burke, WBEZ editor.
Producer: Andrew Meriwether
Editor: Andrew Meriwether, Meha Ahmad