In her article on the editorial page of Tuesday, August 14th, 2018’s Houston Chronicle, Esther J. Cepeda describes the problem of home involvement in a child’s reading skills development: “The inconsistency in home support is magnified when you factor in the preparation that teachers bring to the singularly crucial task of reading instruction.” She goes on to describe the standards and certification requirements of reading teachers in several states, and her opinion seems to be that those requirements do not help teachers or their students with reading instruction. (Her statistics and examples are worth reading.)
She ends her discussion of teacher accountability and the requirements students are held to by standardized testing with these words: “It seems like plain common sense that all states should require elementary teachers and special-education teacher candidates to prove they can produce the highest number of successful readers.” Here is where Cepeda and I part…
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