As someone recently put it to me, improving Wisconsin’s overall results in reading will not come from pushing one button. It will require pushing maybe 10 buttons. A lot needs to be done.
Some of the buttons that should be pushed connect to what goes on in school. Some connect to things beyond school, including what happens at home and what happens in a child’s earliest years. Some may not be so hard to push; others are enormous challenges.
I hope — I even expect — that the Wisconsin Reading Corps will be a button that brings good results.
I have no regrets about being revved up recently in this space about Wisconsin’s disgraceful record on teaching children to read.
To review, Wisconsin kids of every race and economic category underperform students of the corresponding category nationwide when it comes to reading proficiency, according to new results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The gap between white and black kids in Wisconsin is among the largest in the countr
Madison has long tolerated disastrous reading results.
Foundations of Reading teacher content knowledge examination.
UW Madison Professor Mark Seidenberg