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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isnt news. Maybe i am late to the party but just wanted to share anyway.
And has now incorporated phonics in its revised curriculum. But its too late for the students who struggled because of her. It’s appalling that our kid’s education is just a money making business and mcps continues to pick sub par curriculums over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html[/quote]

A few years from now they'll finally realize she was actually right and this is just another money grab to sell more textbooks.[/quote]

Couldn't agree more.  Most teachers know that learning methodology swings on a pendulum.  The best ones implement whatever is in fashion enough to please admin while plugging/sneaking in the tried and true methods (phonics, etc.) in their daily planning.[/quote]

“Why Johnny can’t read” is a book published in 1955. Its thesis is that whole word literacy instruction is ineffective and does not properly prepare students for higher-level texts.

So maybe this is a pendulum swing but the pendulum was going the other way for a good seventy years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Johnny_Can't_Read?wprov=sfti1[/quote]

I was taught to read in the 80 using phonics.  When I went to college for teaching in the late 90's/early 00's, whole literacy was the new latest greatest thing to do.  By the 2010's, my oldest son didn't get as much phonics, etc. as I would have liked, but it was back.  My youngest by 7 years has straight up phonics instruction like I did.  The pendulum swings quicker than we realize because unless you are in the industry, you only get that one snapshot in time of when you were in school and then your children.  [/quote]

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