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New group seeks fundamental shift in the way Wisconsin teaches children to read

Quoted: There has been a resurgence of interest among educators in recent years, driven in part by people like Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist whose 2017 book “Language at the Speed of Sight” argued that the current approaches to reading instruction were out of sync with the latest research into how children learn.

Speaking at the Capitol Wednesday, Seidenberg said DPI “has done little to address literacy issues that have existed for decades.”

“We know the best ways to teach children to read,” he said. “Wisconsin is simply not using them, and our children are suffering.”