{"id":9321,"date":"2021-04-28T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/26\/some-nc-leaders-say-mississippis-model-charts-the-way-to-helping-kids-read\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:40:20","slug":"some-nc-leaders-say-mississippis-model-charts-the-way-to-helping-kids-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/some-nc-leaders-say-mississippis-model-charts-the-way-to-helping-kids-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Some NC leaders say Mississippi&#8217;s model charts the way to helping kids read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What impacts reading success for pre-K and elementary school students? Reading programs and techniques like LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), &#8220;science of reading,&#8221; and Open Court (whose name changed to Imagine It!) abound, but can their use in schools predict or even ensure reading outcomes?<\/p>\n<p>In an NPR program airing on WFAE 90.7 (Charlotte, North Carolina), a reporter looks at the strides the state of Mississippi made when it implemented LETRS. The state&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/nationsreportcard\/\">NAEP<\/a> reading scores for fourth-graders shot up from 21% being proficient in 2013 to nearly 32% proficiency in 2019. It&#8217;s a change that caught the attention of North Carolina lawmakers, who recently passed a bill to use the same model.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Thomas, an education professor at Furman University, says there&#8217;s more to Mississippi&#8217;s numbers, and states might consider spending on other things that affect student success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What impacts reading success for pre-K and elementary school students? Reading programs and techniques like LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), &#8220;science of reading,&#8221; and Open Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[836,837,838,839,840],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news","tag-letrs","tag-naep","tag-reading-proficiency","tag-reading-scores","tag-science-of-reading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}