[goodwithagun]

You must not be very familiar with eduction. “Experts” are paid handsomely (from our hard work) to reinvent the wheel every few years. The phonics phase is so 1990’s and whole-word memorization is back. The only trend that public education will not return to is the classical trivium method. That’s because it works.

[aruanan]

You must not be very familiar with eduction. “Experts” are paid handsomely (from our hard work) to reinvent the wheel every few years. The phonics phase is so 1990’s and whole-word memorization is back. The only trend that public education will not return to is the classical trivium method. That’s because it works.

The Chicago Public Schools is phonics-based in reading instruction starting in kindergarten.