Education Schools Inadequately Prepare Elementary Teachers How to Teach Reading

Washington

Most of the nation’s colleges of education are doing an inadequate job of preparing aspiring elementary teachers for what is often characterized as their most important task: teaching children to read, a report by a Washington-based advocacy and research organization concludes.

Teacher-education programs across the country are failing to teach the elements of effective reading instruction that research has proved are essential—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension, according to “What Education Schools Aren’t Teaching About Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren’t Learning,” released here today by the National...