1/3 of US schools teach reading in a way that doesn't work.

[jeremyp]

When the 'mites go up, the 'tites come down.
Goddesses have double D's.

Stalactites have to hold on tight.

 

[novaphile]

Good one! Also, in a similar vein:

stalaCtite (C for ceiling)

and

stalaGmite (G for ground)

 

[TragicMonkey]

I learned it as "you might trip on a stalagmite".

 

[Brainster]

I learned it as "you might trip on a stalagmite".

Only if you lick it.

 

[novaphile]

Only if you lick it.

What? Crushing them up and making a 'tea' doesn't work?

 

[marting]

Columbia Dissolves their "Teachers College Reading and Writing Project"

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

An infuriating story and naturally this hurts the poor kids and minorities more. Rich parents get their kids tutored. Basically, a bunch of teachers and schools bought into a teaching method about 30 years ago that doesn't work and the science was pretty clear at the time that it doesn't work.

There's also some classic skeptics stuff here. The folks profiting from the pseudoscience accuse big education of doing exactly that.

I blame the Kiwi's, one of them created this method in the 60s. To be fair, before the science was clear.

Anyrate, if you have kids and their schools use a method other than phonics, go to the school board meetings and get them to stop.

Anything from Lucy Caulkins, Fountas and Pinnell, or Maire Clay, is bad bad bad.

Columbia University just chucked the program.
https://gothamist.com/news/columbia...teracy-curriculum-used-in-nyc-public-schools/

The once-revered Columbia University program behind a flawed literacy curriculum used in New York City schools will be “dissolved,” the university announced.

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project’s founder, literacy scholar Lucy Calkins, will also go on sabbatical for the coming academic year. Teachers College quietly released the news last Friday, ahead of Labor Day weekend.

Moving forward, the university said, Teachers College “will ensure that its professional development programs are informed by the latest research and evidence.”

 

[Samson]

I was taught phonics, in New Zealand then it all stopped. It still has not started again. I get laughed at for saying the prisons would be empty if every child was taught phonics at 4. Also my kids' private phonics teacher said she never had a failure and dyslexia doesn't exist.

Total cost for two: Less than the median weekly wage.

 

[arthwollipot]

I get laughed at for saying the prisons would be empty if every child was taught phonics at 4.

Well, there might be a good reason for that.

 

[Ron Swanson]

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

An infuriating story and naturally this hurts the poor kids and minorities more. Rich parents get their kids tutored. Basically, a bunch of teachers and schools bought into a teaching method about 30 years ago that doesn't work ...

And people ask me why all my kids were homeschooled.