Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pathetic ‘science of studying’ – Latest News
Credit Gov. Kathy Hochul with recognizing that New York must drastically up its recreation in relation to instructing youngsters to learn — however mock her for paying the state academics’ union to supply a higher curriculum.
Mississippi and different deep-south states are working miracles in instructing literacy, having embraced the insights of the “science of reading” motion; Hochul two years in the past determined New York may catch up by . . . paying tens of millions to New York State United Teachers to attract up lesson plans to match these good points.
She vowed that revamp instruction would increase studying scores by double digits.
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Oops: NYSUT took the money and produced utter rubbish that ignores the science and as an alternative depends on the utterly discredited “balanced literacy” method — the very nonsense that Mayor Eric Adams’ NYC Reads initiative had rightly rejected after it failed youngsters for 30 years.
As one critic snarked, “We’ve spent $10 million on this? Can I get a refund?”
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Boy, if solely we may.
New York spends far more per pupil than some other state, but our educational outcomes are middling at best.
And now our fourth-graders are falling ever-further behind their Mississippi friends in studying.
Cut to the basic film “Animal House,” when a senior frat brother tells the freshman whose borrowed car they only trashed: “Face it, you f—ked up. You trusted us.”
Hochul messed up in trusting NYSUT, and New Yorkers messed up in trusting the gov — and the youngsters are caught paying the price.
