It’s easier to be ideological if you don’t have children sitting in front of you day after day. When you’re trying an approach and it’s not working, you have to back up and say, ‘I have to try something else.’ You can’t say [students] don’t fit the program.
~Dottie Fowler, a 15-year veteran teacher, 1998 (Education Week)
Parents, whose children have been identified as having dyslexia, are upset with university teacher education programs. They will tell you that students in public schools don’t get the reading instruction they need.
Here’s a post from several years ago. It’s still a problem that often divides teachers and parents. Why do parents see teachers as unprepared when it comes to reading instruction?
In 1998, an Education Week report titled, “Ed. Schools Getting Heat on Reading,” holds some clues.
Back then there were calls for states to revise their reading standards. Louisa Moats, now seen as an authority on dyslexia, was directing a project with the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development.