{"id":11068,"date":"2023-06-29T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:27:23","slug":"more-states-are-using-science-backed-reading-instruction-it-shouldnt-have-taken-this-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11068","title":{"rendered":"More States Are Using Science-Backed Reading Instruction. It Shouldn&#8217;t Have Taken This Long."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Since 2013, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all passed legislation mandating that teachers be trained in the &#8220;science of reading&#8221;\u2014methods that typically center around phonics, an approach in which children are taught to read words by decoding the sounds that different letters or groups of letters make. Since these policies&#8217; implementation, reading performance in these states has dramatically improved, even though reading scores there have historically been among the lowest in the nation.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/05\/18\/more-states-are-using-science-backed-reading-instruction-it-shouldnt-have-taken-this-long\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/05\/18\/more-states-are-using-science-backed-reading-instruction-it-shouldnt-have-taken-this-long\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since 2013, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all passed legislation mandating that teachers be trained in the &#8220;science of reading&#8221;\u2014methods that typically center around phonics, an approach in which children are taught to read words by decoding the sounds that different letters or groups of letters make. Since these policies&#8217; implementation, reading performance in these states has dramatically improved, even though reading scores there have historically been among the lowest in the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,357,811,759],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-school","tag-science","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}