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| Subject: Whatever the OZschwitz statists touch, turns to shit: Reading Recovery a 'failed program' Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:42 pm | |
| The remedial reading program Reading Recovery has failed in New Zealand and needs to be replaced with one that targets children most at risk of failing to learn to read, according to visiting academics.
Reading Recovery is the most widely used early intervention program for poor readers in Australian schools.
It was taught in nearly a quarter of Victorian government schools last year with 2461 primary students (about 5 per cent) enrolled.
However, New Zealand academics will tell a Learning Difficulties Australia symposium in Melbourne this week that the program was designed in the 1970s prior to most of the modern research into how children learn to read.
They say that after more than 25 years of Reading Recovery in New Zealand, there is virtually no empirical evidence to indicate that successful completion of Reading Recovery results in sustained literacy improvement.
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/reading-recovery-a-failed-program-20140902-10biol.html |
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