With unanimous support from the state House and Senate, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a major literacy reform bill on June 26. The law, which requires K-3 students to receive evidence-based reading instruction—phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—is vital not only for the promise it holds out for public school students but also because it shows how sensible education reform can win over teachers’ unions even in deep-blue states.
With the new law, the Bay State joins several others in banning “three-cueing” or “MSV cueing,” a failed reading strategy that encourages students to guess unfamiliar words using meaning, structure,
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