{"id":199406,"date":"2026-04-16T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:55:00","slug":"gov-kathy-hochuls-pathetic-science-of-reading-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199406\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s pathetic &#8216;science of reading&#8217; fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit Gov. Kathy Hochul with recognizing that New York needs to drastically up its game <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/05\/us-news\/nearly-half-of-students-across-ny-state-fail-to-make-the-grade-on-math-english-tests-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when it comes to teaching kids to read<\/a> \u2014 but mock her for paying the state teachers\u2019 union to produce a better curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/16\/opinion\/nyc-should-look-to-the-mississippi-miracle-to-learn-how-to-teach-reading\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi and other deep-south states are working miracles<\/a> in teaching literacy, having embraced the insights of the \u201cscience of reading\u201d movement; Hochul two years ago decided New York could catch up by . . . paying millions to New York State United Teachers to draw up lesson plans to match those gains.<\/p>\n<p>She vowed that revamp instruction would boost reading scores by double digits.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Oops: NYSUT took the money and produced utter garbage that ignores the science and instead relies on the completely discredited \u201cbalanced literacy\u201d approach \u2014 the very nonsense that Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/22\/opinion\/reading-opens-worlds-and-nyc-schools-are-getting-it-right\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Reads initiative<\/a> had rightly rejected after it failed children for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>As one critic snarked, \u201cWe\u2019ve spent $10 million on this? Can I get a refund?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Boy, if only we could.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York spends far more per student than any other state, yet our academic outcomes are middling at best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now our fourth-graders are falling ever-further behind their Mississippi peers in reading.<\/p>\n<p>Cut to the classic movie \u201cAnimal House,\u201d when a senior frat brother tells the freshman whose borrowed car they just trashed: \u201cFace it, you f\u2014ked up. You trusted us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul messed up in trusting NYSUT, and New Yorkers messed up in trusting the gov \u2014 and the kids are stuck paying the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit Gov. 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