Important to note that the three territories as well as any Indigenous on-reserve schools are excluded from PISA testing in Canada. Makes one question the accuracy of our country’s ranking.🤔

Thanks so much, Jodi! Love the title...it says it all!

So is this suggesting concerns about grade inflation?

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Awareness and support is mounting (slowly but surely). The British Columbia Association of School Psychologists and the Canadian Paediatric Society have both issued position statements about literacy - a social justice issue and a basic human right.

Link to report: www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/e...

Meanwhile...in BC, the New Teacher Survey Executive Summary (June 2023) stated that Teacher Education Program (TEP) coursework "is not seen as fit for purpose" and had 3 recommendations:

I will have to disagree. "Structured literacy" is an umbrella term. It is not a program; it is a term used to describe evidence-based reading (and writing) instruction.

I'm not sure what you mean by the phrase "structured literacy lite." Perhaps you could elaborate.