Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods

Episode 147: The Great Betrayal: Top Experts Make Millions by Promoting Worst Methods  (Wed, April 24, 2024)——————————————————————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.”-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Podcasts are presented as voice and print  (i.e., TRANSCRIPT)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here are two ways to help K-12…Visit  Education Reform  for a 2-page explanation of what we can do.When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. (For a list of literary titles, visit Lit4u.com. Still under construction but worth a look.)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.Support the show