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 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline Episode 189: Government Tests Confirm Decline -- Wed, Feb. 12, 2025 (but late) (First let me mention this is the first deadline I missed in three years; my email provider stopped doing its job for two or three days.) Main news: EducationNext.org reports that we have been mired in shrinking academic outcomes for more than a decade,. And everything.continues to get worse. “We’ve always had an achievement gap. It was getting worse prior ...
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...
