The Privatization of Teaching Teachers How to Teach Reading: Cashing In on Kids!
Wondering about all the recent articles claiming teachers don’t know how to teach reading, and their education schools are failing them?
It appears to be about nonprofits! These groups are competing with universities. They promise to better prepare teachers to teach reading, for a fee, of course!
But there’s no proof they will do teacher preparation better. It’s unclear why nonprofits are considered experts.
The goal along with making money appears to be to place children on digital devices for most of their learning.
Here are some examples. Click the titles for the links.
The Wall Street Journal recently promoted a group called Early Reading Matters “Nonprofit Trains Teachers on the ABCs of Reading in the Classroom.”
Early Reading Matters is a part of Teachers Matter which promotes itself as an organization to teach teachers a variety of skills. Here’s the link.
Why is this group untrustworthy?
- They make the usual blanket statements critical of public schools.
- They love Common Core and look to align skills with the Common Core State CONTINUE READING: The Privatization of Teaching Teachers How to Teach Reading: Cashing In on Kids!