{"id":1189,"date":"2023-03-10T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:10:34","slug":"education-watch-gov-evers-takes-huge-steps-toward-positive-reading-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch: Gov. Evers Takes Huge Steps Toward Positive Reading Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-gov-evers-takes-huge-steps-toward-positive-reading-reforms\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-gov-evers-takes-huge-steps-toward-positive-reading-reforms\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Governor Tony Evers:<\/strong> \u201cDo we need to change the way we\u2019re training teachers on how to teach reading?\u201d \u201cOf course. And that\u2019s already happening, to be honest with you. I\u2019ve been to some in our university centers that are doing a great job.\u201d Listen <a href=\"https:\/\/wiseye.org\/podcast\/newsmakers-gov-tony-evers-on-2023-25-budget-proposal\">here<\/a> or watch here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2039\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Quinton-e1660321888133-300x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Governor Evers went even farther than the Department of Public Instruction did, which we mentioned in last week\u2019s newsletter. He focused on reading as a core reform tactic, he indicated that he would like to hire a higher, more realistic number of teacher coaches so that they would not all go to Milwaukee Public Schools, he complimented Mississippi\u2019s and Florida\u2019s reforms, and he indicated that universities should train teachers in phonics-based, more effective ways.<\/li>\n<li>Did he also make some excuses for low-income children not reading, say that Mississippi\u2019s and Florida\u2019s regular top-5 appearances may be \u201cshort-term gain that doesn\u2019t necessarily carry over,\u201d and say that many teacher colleges \u201care doing a great job,\u201d even as half of students fail the reading instruction test? He did. But let\u2019s praise him for moving toward compromise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-gov-evers-takes-huge-steps-toward-positive-reading-reforms\/ From Governor Tony Evers: \u201cDo we need to change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}