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Dr. Jesse Turner is a professor at Central Connecticut State University speaks on the correlation between the drop in literacy specialists and the drop in reading scores.

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And we're taking another look at the forecast. Morning, temperatures are going to be warm, but temps will fall throughout the day and there's still rain out there for that morning commute. So there could be a couple of issues on the roads plan accordingly. Travel could be a little disrupted by that rain. Now, there will be some snow falling mainly north, but that's going to be very brief and it doesn't look like we'll see much of an accumulation, but either way it's going to be damp out for the morning commute, the afternoon will be and colder. So make sure you have something waterproof for the morning, grab a rain jacket, don't wear the good shoes tomorrow, it's going to be very wet out, but later it up underneath because temperatures will be colder. S ra are still looking pretty messy across the area. And like I mentioned in terms of snow, there's not going to be very much but just parts of northern Litchfield County and as you go up in elevation, so this upcoming week as a whole is going to be a lot drier than what we're seeing right now. And those temperatures are in the forties.

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Our Lives: Explaining the decline in reading test scores

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Welcome to our lives. I'm Gwen Edwards. My guest today says it's a problem that state educators should have seen coming the decline and reading test scores. Doctor Jesse Turner is a professor at Central Connecticut State Univ. Welcome. Dr Turner salutations. Our lives, listeners. And watchers tell me dr turner about the correlation between the drop and literacy specialist and the drop and reading scores. We we've got two things here. Uh One is that I arrived in Connecticut 23 years ago and we had 300 people in our literacy specialist program. We now have 70. So there was a time when Connecticut had 2400 fully certified literacy specialist teaching in regular classrooms. A school will have one literacy specialists, but having 2400 in your classrooms, it certainly made Connecticut number one in the nation. We will number one in the nation for the fourth grade and eighth grade. When I arrived in the state with the decline of enrollment and literacy specialist programs. I'm concerned with that. And I do think there's a correlation between our declines and test scores and by the way, in case the nation didn't know and our viewers don't know Connecticut, 12th grade ist. They are number one in the nation in literacy, just in case. I mean, they don't, sometimes we don't tell the whole story and we are by far double the above the national average of any other state. So I think the solution is we should start think we don't need more literacy specialists. Like one person at a school? We need more literacy specialists in our elementary classrooms. When can I tell you where we're most in trouble in our priority school districts? Those are our school districts that educate our poorest Children are black and brown Children. And those are the districts where I'm the least likely to have a fully certified literacy specialists. And and that's a problem. We know that black teachers make a difference. Brown teachers make a difference. And the state of Connecticut should be paying for those graduate degrees in those critical areas. My Children in poor schools to serve what avon what darian? What? Simsbury? And they always have a fully certified, highly qualified interventionist. I'm not having that in in in in in other in other districts in my poor districts. And that's the saddest thing. Well, dr turner thank you so much for sharing this information and we want to thank you so much for watching our lives. We hope to see you the next time.

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