This
morning, 8.2.24, I read a post in Education HQ by Sarah Duggan. LINK
Here is an
extract and my comments:
All Australian governments and school sector leaders should
commit to a 10-year ‘Reading Guarantee’ strategy to reduce the dire number of
instructional casualties slipping through the system and ensure best practice
is not left to chance, experts have proposed.
One third of all students are below the basic level of
reading proficiency, Amy Haywood, Grattan’s education deputy program director,
tells Education HQ.
“And the sad thing is, that it’s a preventable tragedy
because we do know what strong and effective reading instruction looks like –
we just need to make sure that we’re getting it happening in every classroom…”
Haywood says.