{"id":12487,"date":"2023-12-21T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:25:30","slug":"how-some-of-californias-worst-schools-got-better-at-teaching-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12487","title":{"rendered":"How Some of California&#8217;s Worst Schools Got Better at Teaching Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California&#8217;s worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read. This led to a legal settlement in which the state&#8217;s 75 worst-performing elementary schools agreed to invest in evidence-based reading instruction\u2014that is, in training teachers to use techniques, such as phonics, for which there is strong evidence that they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edworkingpapers.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ai23-887.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">working paper<\/a>&nbsp;from two Stanford researchers, the extra training helped. Students&#8217; reading scores improved when compared to students from other poorly performing schools. The score increases were roughly as valuable as an additional 25 percent of a school year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Suxlk7MV0a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/11\/how-some-of-californias-worst-schools-got-better-at-teaching-reading\/\">How Some of California&#8217;s Worst Schools Got Better at Teaching Reading<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How Some of California&#039;s Worst Schools Got Better at Teaching Reading&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/11\/how-some-of-californias-worst-schools-got-better-at-teaching-reading\/embed\/#?secret=nA1Obg0BdZ#?secret=Suxlk7MV0a\" data-secret=\"Suxlk7MV0a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California&#8217;s worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read. This led to a legal settlement in which the state&#8217;s 75 worst-performing elementary schools agreed to invest in evidence-based reading instruction\u2014that is, in training teachers to use techniques, such as phonics, for which there is strong evidence that they work.<br \/>\nAccording to a new working paper from two Stanford researchers, the extra training helped. Students&#8217; reading scores improved when compared to students from other poorly performing schools. The score increases were roughly as valuable as an additional 25 percent of a school year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/11\/how-some-of-californias-worst-schools-got-better-at-teaching-reading\/<\/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":[304,356,357,939],"class_list":["post-12487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-education","tag-school","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487","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=12487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}