One of the Three 'Rs' Could Disappear from Howard County Middle Schools
The responsibility of teaching reading strategies would fall to teachers in other content areas.
Reading teachers in Howard County middle schools are being told they won't be teaching formal reading classes next year — a proposal that has sparked controversy among teacher advocates who are worried that basic education building blocks could be abandoned. The proposal, crafted by a county school system committee, recommends the elimination of reading classes. Reading teachers would then be reassigned in different capacities in other classes, which would absorb reading responsibilities, said Howard County school board member Brian Meshkin. The Howard County Education Association is among those concerned. On Nov. 8, the representative council — its policy-making body — unanimously passed a resolution stating its opposition to the proposal…
Ann Delacy
6:32 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012
One doesn't need to have children in the system to have common sense! more ›