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Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods
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Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods (Wed, April 24, 2024)
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First published as “42: Who Ruined Reading” on Improve-Education.org. Site is now unavailable due to incompetence of hosting company. I’m working on recovery.
Our Education Establishment is also incompetent. We have 50 million functional illiterates. Please stop putting up with this. Take a little time to understand the Great Reading Heist. Read “the Meaning of the Lucy Calkins fiasco.”
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Non-phonics instruction leads to poor reading, anxiety, ADHD, reliance on Ritalin, etc. There is no good reason for teaching with sight-words, except that “experts” insist.
Phonics expert say children typically learn to read in first grade. Requiring children to learn sight-words is typically asking the impossible.
Few humans can memorize even 100 license plates. Why would anyone think that ordinary children can memorize thousands of sight-words?
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Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer.
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