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 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
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10 months ago
Episode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story
Episode 184: Why American Public Schools Can’t Teach Children To Read? The Secret Story (Wed, Jan 8, 2025) It was a deal signed in blood, or if not in blood, then in IQ points. Keeping Sight-Words in play was a dirty trick on all the average students who were reduced a notch or three. Frank Smith produced the sophistry required to keep nonsense in play. There is a double penalty because learning to read with phonics actually raises intelligence, according to many researchers...
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...
