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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

In Why Johnny Can't Read (New York: Macmillan, 1955), Rudolf Flesch exposed the shortcomings of whole-word reading instruction, a practice that stubbornly persists six decades later despite the book being a huge bestseller for years.

15 posted on 08/03/2017 2:31:56 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Why does Bruce think his book will have more success in reforming the government schools?


17 posted on 08/03/2017 2:34:26 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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