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Education Fails: Most Students, Not Just Dyslexic

Posted by Dave Wallace on April 19, 2015 at 12:49pm in Restore America's Mission Now!
Parents clamor for new standards of teaching reading. A move has begun in Maryland to teach phonics to dyslexic students so they can learn to read. The parents claim: the current method doesn't work for their special needs students; worse the schools tell these parents their children meet or exceed grade levels, while independent testing reveals these same Children are performing below or at grade level thus needing remedial catch up work to be on par with customary standards. Here is the rub, sight reading, the current system being taught diminishes achievement across the board, for all students, dyslexia or not. But worse, it handicaps a student during their entire life time as they are not prepared with the skill set necessary to determine how to pronounce words later, causing their vocabulary to be locked into a much smaller repertoire, which stunts personal growth and achievement throughout life. Here is the take from "Crimes of the Educators" author, international journalist and educator, Alex Newman. . Newman believes lawmakers are not truly interested in what the public thinks of Common Core because the lawmakers want to use it to dumb down American children. In “Crimes of the Educators,” Newman and Blumenfeld write about John Dewey, the progressive education reformer of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The authors argue that Dewey and his allies developed a new method of teaching children to read, called the whole-word method, that has had disastrous results. Newman laments that the whole-word method is still being taught in many public schools today. “They literally teach the kids to read English as if it were Chinese rather than the traditional phonics method that has worked since time immemorial, and that’s at the root of so many of the problems we have in our country today,” Newman explained on Malzberg’s show. Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/04/education-disaster-no-accident-expert-warns/#DxjeHdJiqFIxfJ13.99

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