Posted on 11/30/2018 3:25:13 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
Embracing Ebonics is anti literacy
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring government school teachers to take a literacy test, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of white teachers failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanic teachers and 59 percent of black teachers failed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.
Nothing will change until that changes.
Y’all need to getcha story straight.
Probably blogs.
LMAO
And if the teachers can’t read how are children going to learn.
I hadn’t thought of that! </sarcasm>
“Yes, it’s true. The New York Times came right out and told the world that if you want children to learn to read, they need phonics. No ifs, ands, or buts.”
...and yet most people, EVEN ON THIS SITE, think we’re kooks when we try to tell them that “Sight Words” are not just useless, but are DESTRUCTIVE, regarding a child’s ability to learn to read.
I’d repeat the reasons why they’re destructive, if anyone is interested, but I doubt it. After all, we’re just kooks here.
I’ve been saying for perhaps a decade that if I were Czar, the first thing I would do is dismantle the Colleges of Education. They are the ones who have pushed the Big Lie that sight words are a path to literacy, and it is a monumental failure. The Big Education edifice needs to be completely destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up.
Ping
Surprising!
Reality is racist, clearly.
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring government school teachers to take a literacy test, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of white teachers failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanic teachers and 59 percent of black teachers failed.
Then, they must not be qualified and shouldn’t be teaching!
Well I learned Phonics in the 1950’s and it worked. I just wished it worked on typing. I keep typing in the cracks!
Ya think?
I think it was Oakland, CA that tried to have "ebonics" classified as a separate language to tap into that space in the public trough.
By the looks of it, BOTH!
About 15 years ago, a Southern state discovered that its main instate source of teachers was essentially little more than a diploma mill.
They couldn't fire those that failed the re-exam because of the lack of competent applicants, and they needed "babysitters" for the existing "young-skulls-full-of-mush" then in the pipeline.
I would be willing to bet that the author of the NYT article, Emily Hanford, is a parent who has just discovered that her child is having a hard time reading and decided to investigate why her bright child is having problems.
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