Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)

An episode of the Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price podcast, hosted by Bruce Deitrick Price, titled "Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)" was published on August 3, 2022 and runs 6 minutes.

August 3, 2022 ·6m · Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price

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Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022 First of all, let's face it, sophistry is an art form. The best professors can spew nonsense week after week, month after month, and most of them hardly know what the others are saying. It's all very medieval. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Well, if they know sight-words, at least 187 high-frequency words. Or something like that. ----------------------------------------------------------...

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Episode 57: The Big Lie About Elementary Reading (Wednesday, August 3, 2022

First of all, let's face it, sophistry is an art form. The best professors can spew nonsense week after week, month after month, and most of them hardly know what the others are saying. It's all very medieval. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Well, if they know sight-words, at least 187 high-frequency words. Or something like that.

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Simplest road to reading is revealed in this short video: Reading Is Easy (easily found on YouTube)

Compare what the phonics people say (song) with what the sight-word people say (screeching).
https://www.education.com/magazine/article/prekindergartensightwords/

none of them even know what the others are saying

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.

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