DiscoverMindShift PodcastHow Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively
How Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively

How Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively

Update: 2020-09-081
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As a child, Connie Williams learned to read using the “whole word” strategy, which has since been disproven as an effective technique. She graduated high school in Oakland, Calif., but she was functionally illiterate. Since then, her children and grandchildren have attended Oakland public schools, all of them struggling to learn to read. And it wasn’t just her family -- the district is failing thousands of kids. Now, Connie Williams is part of a movement of families advocating for phonics instruction, hoping that different teaching strategies will help their kids finally learn how to read well enough to access the rest of their education. After all, equal access to education is supposed to be a civil right.

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How Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively

How Families are Pushing Schools to Teach Reading Skills More Effectively

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