NYC's new literacy curriculum criticized as uninteresting, rigid
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Eric Adams is pivoting New York City public schools to phonics. The debate about the best way to help children learn to read goes back years, but an overwhelming body of data has shown the benefit of having kids sound out letters and words.
A new semester means a whole new way of teaching reading at hundreds of schools in the nation’s largest school system.
Many students joyously returned to New York City’s nearly 1,600 schools on Thursday. But a possible bus strike and air conditioning issues dimmed some of the good vibes.