Today’s News Spotlight, 3/20/19 — Fake Education

Here’s the story from American Thinker about Fake K-12 Education. Here’s an excerpt:

Whole Word, a theory that children can learn to read by memorizing sight-words, is a lot like living with Chinese drywall.  You get headaches and respiratory problems.  Your health is shot from worry and failure.  After years of going to school, the victims still have nothing to show for all that work and expense.  Memorizing sight-words is difficult to do and counterproductive.  Once you have these designs in your brain, you can rarely be a fluent reader.  More than 40,000,000 people, known as functional illiterates, are victims of this peculiar adulteration.  Reading is promised but not delivered.


And here’s the author’s book on the subject.

His name is Bruce Deitrick Price and you should absolutely read what he has to say, whether you have children or not. We are all affected.

A recent InstaPunk post, Portrait of a Generational Self-Deception, provides additional context on this subject.