re: Louisiana records nation's highest growth in reading after switching to a phonics based sy

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How pathetic is public education in Louisiana that we had to copy Mississippi?

Congrats, I guess.

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I’m pretty sure that Mississippi didn’t invent phonics.

1970's education here. I was so good at spelling bees in class it got to the point I would misspell words on purpose just so I could sit and chill

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Same. We also have a first grader and she's reading really well. We've started phonics with her two younger sisters as well to get them a head start on reading and they're doing great with letter recognition and sounds. Can't believe we ever moved away from phonics-based learning.

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If you are reading with your kid and having them read to you, you are way ahead of most Louisiana parents.

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Landry will f this up when he cuts funding to public education

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Only left-wing idiots call school choice cutting funding.

Increase funding and the scores keep going down.

Implement common sense instead of money, kids read better.


People like you would hear a kid say, let me axe you something, and never correct them. Oh let them speak how they want you bigot.

Good it needs to make a full come back. They have been trying to teach kids to read by not sounding out words - just looking at some illustrations in the book and making it up as they go. This is why kids can’t fricken read, some lowest common denominator technique, common core type bullshite. Even in Texas this was going on and they are now switching back to phonics and sounding words out - you know , learning how to actually decode words and read. That “new way” was some DEI no dumbass left behind business.

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How'd you get her interested. I have a PK4 kid that loves the idea of reading and plays around with the sight words; but doesn't seem to want to put the two thoughts together and actually work on reading. At least not at home, teachers say she's doing great, but I don't know what metric they are comparing her to.

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For my kids at the preschool level these type books helped. It's a pad that comes with 8 books that the pad reads aloud and they can follow along. My kids started to really get more site words from going through these books so many times

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Louisiana records nation's highest growth in reading

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Probably because are having two hour blocks of English/Language Arts/Reading everyday as opposed to the traditional one hour class. This is because of the devastating damage to our kids when we made them stay at home for school for most of a school year. Scores plummeted after that.

They used to make them take two hours blocks of math too but I guess those scores finally improved enough to drop it back to one hour this year.

You're a boob...

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In the 1970s and 1980s, the Dick-and-Jane method was replaced by the whole-language approach, which was vaguely associated with the left. The theory was, essentially, that if you surround children with high-quality, engaging children’s literature, they will acquire the ability to read. The approach proved wildly popular with teachers, but the movement encountered a serious obstacle in the 1990s when reading scores in California—which had adopted whole language statewide—took a serious plunge.

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Leaders of the whole language movement charged that those who advocated phonics were allies of the “far right.” As Diane Ravitch recounts in her book Left Back, one of them, Kenneth Goodman, argued that opponents of whole language were afraid it would work too well. They wanted to use phonics, he said, to keep people from becoming empowered through literacy.

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It is amazing that most public schools do not teach phonics. Rather, they teach memorization. That is crazy. Wife homeschools our son and the curriculum she uses gives a strong foundation based off of phonics. His friends, some two or three grades higher cannot pronounce or spell basic words. My son on the other hand through phonics can pronounce and spell words correctly that he has never heard before because of phonics. One of the many reasons we homeschool instead of opting for the public education system.

I know Cade Brumley. State superintendent, he’s a treasure for our state. His son is at Hillsdale College. A great college promoting freedom and not indoctrination.
Could be our future governor.