New York City requires reading instruction to be phonics-based

New York City officials said Tuesday that the city will require all of its elementary schools to employ phonics programs in teaching children to read, saying alternate systems that have been in place for years are failing. The announcement from the nation’s largest school system is fresh evidence of a national shift underway toward what supporters call “the science of reading,” in which children are explicitly taught how to sound out words.

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employ：除了雇佣，还有使从事于

phonic：a. 语音的；有声的（phon- = sound，声音）

in place：使用

phonics：n. 声学；基础语音教学法

evidence：证据；迹象