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IPFS News Link • Education: Government Schools

Americans Testy on Education

01-18-2014 • arclein

In 1955, educator Rudolf Flesch saw this changing. He published Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It, demonstrating the disastrous results of a particular reading pedagogy called “look-say” in which students simply memorized entire words rather than learning how to sound them out phonetically. Traditional introduction to the fundamentals of phonics, he argued, almost universally produced readers; “look-say” produced a startling

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Reported By robert klein

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