New York City is changing the way it teaches reading, getting children hooked on phonics, after Schools Chancellor David Banks concluded public schools have been teaching reading the wrong way for decades.
Schools will now adopt one of three curriculums - using phonics, which teach how to decode letter sounds - instead of more traditional methods like using picture clues to guess words.
Waivers to opt out will be considered for schools where more than 85% of students are proficient in reading, a threshold that only about 20 schools meet.Black, Latino and low-income children fare even worse.
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