How hopeful are you about the movement to center phonics in early reading education?

For context: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/us/what-to-know-about-the-science-of-reading.html?searchResultPosition=5

I've been reading much more education reporting and journalism about the accelerating coalition and seeming consensus for the science of reading in schools over the past year and there seems to be a lot of optimism around this movement so far. Out of curiosity, I wanted to hear educators' perspectives on where they think the movement is at from their own observations and how much potential they think it has to improve literary over the short-term and long-term.

On that note, I also found this post below to be a really intriguing and thought-provoking commentary on how even if phonics is the superior method for facilitating literacy, it still needs to operate alongside the difficult constraints that would remain regardless to address larger structural issues in early education. I'm curious how much it resonates with educators here.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-social-science-of-reading-isnt?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=159185&post_id=136492940&isFreemail=false&open=false

Submitted February 25, 2024 at 08:12AM by eddytony96 https://ift.tt/f8ETVWX