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Public Education is Making Our Children Illiterate
It might not be a surprise to many to hear that our public education system is failing. However, it may come as a surprise to hear that it is creating illiteracy. The depths of the problem came to light during the years of the pandemic. Now critics of poorly developed reading curriculums and parents of struggling children are asking why we are not doing a better job teaching students how to read.
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Tagged Columbia University's Teachers College, COVID–19, Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, Ed Reports, Gay Su Pinnell, illiteracy, Irene Fountas, Lucy Calkins, phonics
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Socialists Used Public Schools to Destroy Literacy in America
Widespread illiteracy and the ignorance it produces represent an existential threat to the United States today. But it wasn’t always this way.
And it can be fixed.
Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.
And it can be fixed.
Fortunately, neither the cause of this crisis nor the solution to it is a mystery—at least to anyone who has studied the issue.
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Tagged Arthur Gates, Blue Back Speller, Boston Globe, Boston Review, Common Core, Cultural Marxism, Du Pont de Nemours, dyslexia, Federalist Papers, Horace Mann, Joel Perlmann, John Dewey, Kenneth Lockridge, literacy, National Assessment of Educational Progress, New England Primer, Noah Webster, Old Deluder Satan Act, phonics, Rudolf Flesch, Samuel Blumenfeld, socialist, Stanislas Dehaene, State Education Agency, The New Illiterates, Thomas Gallaudet, Why Johnny Can’t Read, William Gray
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