http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2011/05/16/on-the-record-with-senator-sonia-chang-diaz-co-chair-ma-joint-committee-on-education/ Tue, 14 May 2013 18:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2011/05/16/on-the-record-with-senator-sonia-chang-diaz-co-chair-ma-joint-committee-on-education/#comment-790 Mon, 16 May 2011 14:33:51 +0000 http://eyeonearlyeducation.org/?p=2621#comment-790 It is great to have a state senator with such an understanding of the need for education reform. I hope she will address what I see as a problem in our system: the disconnect between the education reformers from the early childhood educators. To solve the problem of eighth grade readers, we need to know that reading does not begin in pre-K tp 3rd grade; it begins at birth.
The learning-teaching trajectory for reading begins with experiences children have from birth right through eighth grade and beyond. Our standards need to reflect all these experiences.

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