The Santa Fe government described as “educational catastrophe” to the results of the first reading evaluation, carried out last November to 50,402 boys of 2nd grade (95% of the students). The tragic conclusion of the work is now announced by the Minister of Education, José Goity: “We have 4,500 boys who do not know how to read and 15,000 who do not read 22 words per minute with a minimum of fluidity,” he said.
From the study it arises that just 1 in 4 primary students read well. And that, although the problem is transversal, hits public school stronger than private. In such a way that, the greater the socioeconomic level of a family, a student had less possibilities of having reading problems.
“It is an unpublished evaluation because Never in Santa Fe carried out its own proof and specific to focus on learning, “said Minister Goity. And he completed:” He will mark a before and after in the educational policies of the province. “
The minister defined the literacy problem as “serious”. “We must question us deeply because it is not justified that no boy in the province does not know how to read and write. Nor can we accept or be passive to a set of boys who do not reach a minimum reading standard. ”
On this, in general terms, he stressed that “We have 4,500 guys who do not know how to read, who we know their names and surnames and we will go with education, equality and human development and health, with approach strategies,” At the same time they said they will do the same “with the 15,000 boys and girls who do not read 22 words per minute with a minimum of fluidity. We know that we can reverse this situation.”
The presentation also threw the current numbers of the root literacy plan by which they are literacy 104,827 first and second grade students. From Province they assure that more than 300 thousand books were delivered to 1,700 schools; 7,396 undergraduate teachers and managers were formed and trained and 20 training venues were formed, to try to reverse the situation.
From the results of the reading evaluation, from the provincial management it was decided to move forward with the Program for Support for Full Literacy for 3 ° Grade (for the students evaluated last year) and there will also be didactic athenaeums in prioritized schools. “We are going to start with those who do not know how to read and write with custom tutorials of 20 minutes twice a week in the school environment. And in turn we will give training to teachers in a virtual way; and didactic materials for 210,000 teachers and students, ”concluded Minister Goity.
