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Michigan advocate urges statewide 'science of reading' training after daughter's struggles
Summary
Alicia Urbane, vice president of government and legal affairs for the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, told the House Education and Workforce Committee her youngest child struggled when picture cues were removed and urged statewide teacher training, targeted funding and accountability for literacy instruction.
Alicia Urbane told the House Education and Workforce Committee that her youngest child learned to identify words using picture cues but "couldn't read" when the pictures were removed, a sign she said that balanced-literacy approaches were failing some students. Urbane, who identified herself as vice president of government and legal affairs for the Michigan Association of Public School Academies and a local school board member, said assessments in first and second grade (DIBELS and NWEA) showed inconsistent progress and that district Individual Reading Intervention Plans…
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