About half of the teacher training programs need to change their ways if America is going to improve public school literacy rates, an organization of industry experts has reported.
The National Council on Teacher Quality in its June 9 research report said 47 percent of education programs at U.S. colleges and universities fail to provide thorough instruction on the science of reading, the body of research that indicates the best method of learning to read, which includes sounding out letters.
The council’s findings, based on an examination of more than 700 teacher training programs across the nation, come at a time when 40 percent of public school fourth-graders, or 1.4 million children, cannot read at basic levels….