The New Illiterates (Revisited): And How to Keep Your Child from Becoming One

Bys: Rayborn Dawson, Meg, Ryan, David L., Blumenfeld, Samuel L.

Book Overview

EXPOSED:

- Educational malpractice on a scale that can only stagger the imagination and shock the American people;
- How the child is made completely dependent-right through to junior high school-on controlled-vocabulary books. Who benefits from this;
- How three-quarters of the juvenile offenders in New York City are retarded in reading;
- How the Army teaches young men how to read - after the public schools call them hopeless;
- How the sight-vocabulary establishment got its stranglehold on the teaching profession. How it keeps control;
- The lengths to which whole-word advocates go to avoid mentioning the letters of the alphabet;
- Why left-handed children are particularly harmed by the whole word method;
- Why children taught by the whole-word method don't realize they should read from left to right;
- The "Johnny" Rudolf Flesch wrote about: now he's an adult. And he still can't read;
- Walter Cronkite warns of the dangers of a TV audience that is illiterate;
- Why the educational establishment fights anyone who pushes reform;
- Why some children develop a hatred for school and disrespect their teachers

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CJBR5S2F
• ISBN13: 9798861016209
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"