Have a plan to get the kid back up to grade level. Because if you can't read by age 10, it's pretty much game over. Sure. So that was a critical part of it. They threw out this whole language balance literacy curriculum nonsense that has infected our schools here in New York for 30 years. I thought we switched to phonics in. The last we did. But you were. We have 75,000 teachers in our system. It takes years to retrain them and we haven't done it quickly enough. (09:32–09:41)
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Asserts that New York schools have used a balanced literacy curriculum for 30 years, which he criticizes.
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