EXPOSED: - Educational malpractice on a scale that can only stagger the imagination and shock the American people; - How the child is made completely dependent-right through to junior high school-on controlled-vocabulary books. Who benefits from this; - How three-quarters of the juvenile offenders in New York City are retarded in reading; - How the Army teaches young men how to read - after the public schools call them hopeless; - How the sight-vocabulary establishment got its stranglehold on the teaching profession. How ...
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EXPOSED: - Educational malpractice on a scale that can only stagger the imagination and shock the American people; - How the child is made completely dependent-right through to junior high school-on controlled-vocabulary books. Who benefits from this; - How three-quarters of the juvenile offenders in New York City are retarded in reading; - How the Army teaches young men how to read - after the public schools call them hopeless; - How the sight-vocabulary establishment got its stranglehold on the teaching profession. How it keeps control; - The lengths to which whole-word advocates go to avoid mentioning the letters of the alphabet; - Why left-handed children are particularly harmed by the whole word method; - Why children taught by the whole-word method don't realize they should read from left to right; - The "Johnny" Rudolf Flesch wrote about: now he's an adult. And he still can't read; - Walter Cronkite warns of the dangers of a TV audience that is illiterate; - Why the educational establishment fights anyone who pushes reform; - Why some children develop a hatred for school and disrespect their teachers
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