Eric Adams: “Remember we changed the reading curriculum to a phonics…”

“Each, probably every two weeks she'd come back and say, here's what we're doing here. Here's how we identify those children who are struggling. They were doing quizzes and tests during the time. Remember we changed the reading curriculum to a phonics based reading system and it made a huge input. And now we're not where we want to be. You know, I want to be clear on that.” (27:47–27:57)

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