Teaching Kids to Read: NC's Teacher Colleges Are Turning Around Low Marks, Report Finds

A new report on teacher prep and reading instruction has both good news and bad news

The share of teacher training programs aligned with the science of reading has doubled in the last few years, the National Council on Teacher Quality found.

Teaching kids to read: NC's teacher colleges are turning around low marks, report finds

The improvement for teachers' colleges is just one of many components needed to turn the state's and the nation's fortunes around after years of declining reading scores.

Most of Oregon’s state teacher prep programs still get an F in reading instruction

But Southern Oregon University went from failing to an A in three years.   By James Neff Oregon Journalism Project A new report shows Oregon continues to fail to educate future elementary teachers how to successfully teach reading. The National Council on Teacher Quality’s report, Decoding Progress in Reading Preparation, grades teacher preparation programs across the nation. It gave F’s to most of Oregon’s public teacher prep programs for faili…