Joanne Jacobs
Want to be antiracist? Teach kids to read
Education Week reports that a growing number of school districts are asking would-be teachers: “What have you done personally or...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 22, 20222 min read
Are reading wars over? ‘Balanced literacy’ is a loser
Teachers were trained to teach students how to guess words they couldn’t read. The reading wars are over, writes Dana Goldstein in the...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 11, 20182 min read
Dean, you didn’t prepare me to teach reading
“Schools aren’t teaching reading in ways that line up with the science,” concludes American Public Media’s Emily Hanford in Hard Words....
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 15, 20182 min read
Parents of dyslexics: Teach phonics
Parents of children with dyslexia forced their school district to teach phonics, reports Emily Hanford on NPR. Upper Arlington, Ohio...
Joanne Jacobs
May 11, 20172 min read
Reading and wronging
Educators are teaching reading wrong, argues Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist, in Language at the Speed of...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 28, 20171 min read
Phonics works best to build comprehension
. . . researchers trained adults to read in a new language, printed in unfamiliar symbols, and then measured their learning with reading...
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