"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...

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It distances itself from three-cuing teaching methods, but doesn’t ban it. Reading Recovery is still a state-approved early intervention program used for struggling first grade readers.

The general philosophy of the science of reading is that "teaching strategies should align with a wide body of cognitive research on how young children learn to read," per the Times report.