{"id":48,"date":"2012-05-30T12:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:49:08","slug":"one-reason-kids-arent-learning-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/one-reason-kids-arent-learning-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"One Reason Kids Aren&#8217;t Learning to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"One%20Reason%20Kids%20Aren%27t%20Learning%20to%20Read\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I can&#8217;t find any state that requires a candidate for a certified education position (reading specialist, LD specialist, special education teacher, elementary school teacher, special education director, principal, or any other position) to have training\/certification in even one research-based reading program.<\/p>\n<p>If we were graduating and certifying people who could teach reading, they would be doing it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A school may require the candidate to be well read on research-based practices, but not require enough training\/certification in a research-based program to use it as intended for instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Some teaching colleges will grant college credit if a student gets training in a research-based program outside of college. A few offer it as an elective but don&#8217;t require it for graduation or state certification.<\/p>\n<p>We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that people untrained to accomplish a goal can&#8217;t accomplish it. If we were graduating and certifying people who could teach reading, they would be doing it. Instead, we are producing people who can help a child to read if the child does not need direct systematic instruction in a research-based methodology.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers are paying for a college education that doesn&#8217;t prepare them to do the job they will be hired for. They have enough training to teach some children to read. This is a form of institutionalized discrimination that we need to change. We need to use public funds to pay staff who can teach <strong>all<\/strong> the children to read, <strong>not<\/strong> just the easy ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t find any state that requires a candidate for a certified education position (reading specialist, LD specialist, special education teacher, elementary school teacher, special education director, principal, or any <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/one-reason-kids-arent-learning-to-read\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[1300,100,101],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idea-2004","category-reading","tag-reading","tag-research-based-instruction","tag-teacher-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27820,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/27820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}