Posted on 11/30/2018 3:25:13 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
Not a real surprise to many of us.
The "whole word method" prefers kids to guess at what the word may be, rather than actually using the reasoning faculty of their brains and precisely figuring out the word.
Today, any public school using the "whole word method" will have a substantial portion of their students going through reading remediation. And guess what? When they remediate the kids they teach them phonics because it is the only way to teach kid to read properly.
Go figure!
Good Readers
Equate to
Independent Thinkers.
A good friend has branded US public schools as failure factories that turn out barely literate kids by the thousands.
Houston we have a problem!
This has been known for quite some time, decades.
“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
— Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education
A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform, 1983
https://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html
I don’t believe things have materially improved since 1983. I would love to be shown to be wrong.
Colorado has the Colorado Early College. High school 9th graders can enter college instead of just high school. They can graduate with an engineering degree at 18.
Just more evidence that the K-12 system is a joke and needs to be demolished. When properly taught, kids can do any subject.
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