'Disappointing' reading scores need immediate action, N.B. child and youth advocate says
More than 43 per cent of Grade 4 students scored ‘below appropriate achievement’ on English reading assessment
Child and youth advocate Kelly Lamrock says the province needs to take action immediately to improve student literacy.
According to results from the latest provincial assessments, 43.4 per cent of Grade 4 students scored "below appropriate achievement" on their English reading assessments in 2022-2023.
"Seeing this really was disappointing," Lamrock told CBC News.
"We know that transition in Grade 3, whether a child has gone from learning to read to reading to learn, is one of the biggest predictors of future success. And I just don't know if we're dealing with this with the urgency that the situation required."
New Brunswick child and youth advocate Kelly Lamrock says the provincial government needs to put its focus on literacy. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
The province released the results of the assessments in October. While there was a slight dip in the success for Grade 6 and Grade 9 students as well, Grade 4 student success was by far the most dramatic drop. Just two years earlier, only 31.4 per cent of Grade 4 students were below the appropriate level.
"The results do show negative impacts on English reading assessments at all three grade levels," Education Minister Bill Hogan said in a message on the report.
"We know how important literacy is, and considerable work has been done to ensure we can help our students develop those skills."
Hogan said the department has made changes to how it delivers its provincial assessments. Thy are now issued online.
The province also made changes earlier this year to the reading curriculum. The new approach, which was put into place in September, moves away from what's known in teaching circles as balanced literacy, to a new method known as the science of reading. This is for students in kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 anglophone classrooms.
Focusing on the issue
Lamrock said New Brunswick has pulled itself up from poor assessment results before. In 2000, only 60 per cent of New Brunswick students reached the appropriate achievement levels, but this rose to about 84 per cent by 2010.
"It's now back to where it started 20 years ago, which is unfortunate," said Lamrock.
I'm really, really worried about about these numbers.
- Rebecca Halliday, teacher
He said the province needs to look at what happened between 2000 and 2010 and try to repeat that. Lamrock was education minister for part of that time, from 2006 to 2009.
He said many teachers have to deal with challenges related to classroom composition, and the province needs to take that off their plate.
According to the New Brunswick Teachers' Association, teachers have to work in overcrowded classrooms and face verbal and physical abuse.
"Classroom composition is one of the most urgent things that teachers are raising," said Lamrock.
"We are seeing classrooms now where over half the children have some kind of identified special needs, some quite intense and quite complex. Getting the support they need in those classroom so that they give individual attention to every student who struggles is absolutely essential."
Lamrock says it's important politicians put other issues aside and give this the attention it deserves.
"It's just a matter of putting all of the focus that maybe we spend on divisive issues and taking a look at what what the system supposed to be about, which is turning lights on and kids' heads so they learn to read," said Lamrock.
The price of failure
Rebecca Halliday said it's important to look past the statistics of the assessment results and instead see the individual students who are struggling to read or aren't reading at all.
"I'm really, really worried about about these numbers," said Halliday, a teacher at Riverbend Community School in Riverview, told Information Morning Fredericton. "Reading is a right for all students, and we're getting it wrong."
Halliday said children are taught to read through memorization and by Grade 4, teachers start to see who is succeeding and who isn't. But Halliday believes this isn't the best approach.
"Memorizing words is not really reading. So by the Grade 4 or 5 point, specifically then even in middle school, the breakdown of true reading comprehension is where it becomes painfully obvious," said Halliday. "And I think that's what's happening in these assessments."
The inability to read at the right level can have a huge impact on students, who begin to fall behind, she said. They can become frustrated, disengaged, and their self-esteem takes a hit.
"You get kids who just stop trying.… You get kids who could have had one possible future struggling on another track. And these are kids from all types of different backgrounds."
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Fredericton's deputy police chief moves to top job on force
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-police-force-martin-gaudet-1.6559176
Fredericton's deputy police chief moves to top job on force
Martin Gaudet will take over as police chief on Friday
Martin Gaudet will replace Chief Roger Brown, who's set to retire officially on Friday.
"I'm excited," Gaudet said Monday night after councillors voted in favour of the appointment.
"I'm looking forward to the challenges and opportunities and continuing the great work that Chief Brown and the rest of the senior management team and the organization put in place in the last three years."
Brown will be leaving the role after three years with the Fredericton force. Prior to his stint as chief, he spent 36 years with the RCMP, including his last role as the head of the Mounties' New Brunswick division.
Originally from the Moncton area, Gaudet joined the Fredericton police in 1995 and climbed to the rank of inspector in 2013, then deputy chief in 2015.
Continuing work by Brown
Gaudet said he doesn't have any big changes planned for when he takes on the job, adding he wants to build on Brown's successes.
When Brown joined the police force in 2019, part of his strategy for crime prevention involved putting officers out on patrol in increasing numbers.
Chief
Roger Brown is retiring on Friday after three years with the
Fredericton force and 36 years with the RCMP. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
Gaudet said he planned on sticking to that strategy while continuing to focus on issues such as crystal meth distribution, and property crimes, as well as improving relations with Sitansisk First Nation.
On minor thefts, Gaudet acknowledged residents are frustrated by the issue, but he stopped short of suggesting changes to combat the problem other than asking people to report such crimes whenever they happen.
"It's annoying and at times it can be expensive, so there's no doubt there's a frustration in the communit," he said.
"We can't be everywhere, of course, but knowing where these types of crimes are happening, we can adjust our patrol patterns."
Under Brown, the police also took a new approach to homeless tent sites by sanctioning select locations and having officers monitor them, rather than forcing occupants to leave.
Gaudet said it's an issue he plans to continue working on, but he stressed the need for help from partners, including the Department of Social Development and organizations in the community.
Mayor part of hiring process
Mayor Kate Rogers said Gaudet was selected to be the next chief after a hiring process administered by a committee she was part of.
She said he was the best candidate given his professional experience in policing and the relationships he's built having served on the same force for nearly three decades.
Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers said she was part of a committee that
chose Gaudet to be the next police chief. (Jon Collicott/CBC)
"We'll miss Chief Brown because … he did come in a really important time, critical time in our city and really stabilized the force ... so we feel very fortunate then to be replacing him with a person who worked so closely with him and who would have been mentored by him."
Rogers said Fredericton appears to be dealing with more "big city problems" related to drug use and homelessness, adding she hopes to see the police force expand its scope of response in turn.
"Does every person that goes and deals with an issue need to be a police officer? [Are] there other ways? You know, I think we need to be thinking outside of the typical policing boundaries."
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