Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other English words. For example, a sight-word reader would...
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Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other English words. For example, a sight-word reader would...
Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
7 minutes
11 months ago
Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024)
Episode 180: The Unrelenting Attack On Reading (Wed., Dec. 11, 2024) Starting in kindergarten, children need to read, and they need to learn basic information. Our public schools are designed to stymie BOTH goals. People with children in school have got to pay more attention. The child’s cognitive and intellectual life might be stunted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listen to PODCAST or r...
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 196: Education reformers agree: Sight-words are a con (Wed, April 2, 2025) Please note, this short piece runs a few seconds over 5 minutes, that's all. And then you will understand the Reading Wars, and all the nonsense of the last 100 years. (Urgent note: you might be better off reading this as TRANSCRIPT because I'm explaining the problems of sight-words by illustrating how similar most English words are to many other English words. For example, a sight-word reader would...