Aus: 'Can we talk about high-stakes failure?' Pam Snow comments on the PIRLS results & prisoners' reading profiles

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Aus: 'Can we talk about high-stakes failure?' Pam Snow comments on the PIRLS results & prisoners' reading profiles

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Professor Pamela Snow contributes yet another excellent and important blog post at the time of the release of the 2016 PIRLS results and waiting to hear the verdict of whether Australia will adopt a national phonics check:
Can we talk about high-stakes failure?
http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.uk/2017/1 ... l?spref=tw
So when I hear and read protests to the introduction of a Phonics Screening Check because it might somehow be "high-stakes" for teacher / school / sector accountability, I reflect on a different meaning of "high-stakes" and wonder how the trajectories of some of these young people might have been altered through early reading instruction approaches that are more faithful to the evidence about what works. Early failure for them continues to be high-stakes into adulthood.
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