Our public schools’ most fundamental responsibility is teaching children to read. Yet, many Virginia children remain “curriculum casualties” of failed experiments in reading instruction, and taxpayers are footing the bill. But decades of research have documented the way in which children learn to read and offer specific reforms in reading instruction. Major urban school districts that have implemented these reforms have seen reading scores skyrocket, especially for those children often left behind. We know what works. It’s time we did it.
