Topic: I never followed this stuff. In short they blame being forced to ditch phonics.

[patentlymn]

I never followed this stuff. In short they blame being forced to ditch phonics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1es0oap/what_caused_the_illiteracy_crisis_in_the_us/

https://youtu.be/nMkszwX5NbU
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Sold a Story | Emily Hanford
Centre for Independent Studies
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21,090 views  Premiered Feb 2, 2023
We welcomed Investigative education reporter and host of the ground-breaking Sold a Story podcast, Emily Hanford to discuss why reading is being taught incorrectly.

There’s well-established evidence about how children learn how to read, but this isn’t always reflected in how it’s taught in schools. Unfortunately many teachers aren’t given the knowledge, resources, and practices needed to follow the educational science. Parents, too, rarely have the know-how to best support their children become capable readers. Over many years, educators have been falsely ‘sold a story’ about how children learn and this has harmed the education of countless students.

Helping teachers, parents, and researchers correct the record on how children learn is key to raising education outcomes in Australia and around the Western world. How have so many educators been sold a story that’s proven to be false? Why have flawed ideas about education been so difficult to correct? How are some educators driving a movement to advance evidence-based practice in schools?

Emily Hanford is Senior Producer and Correspondent at American Public Media. She is host and lead producer of the popular podcast, Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.

[Libertas]

My parents read to me...

I showed an interest in wanting to read...and they helped...

I've read as long as I can remember and I can remember back to 3&4 years old...

All I recall of Kindergarten & early grades is there were separate classes for writing (composition), reading (comprehension), speech (can call that phonics I suppose)...it wasn't just one class, it wasn't some new age or Cultural Marxist BS...it was the old school basics...

What I've noticed is if kids today don't have good parents keeping schools, teachers and school boards competent and being good advocates for their kids and the primary mentor for their kids I don't care how good the school may be thought of or ranked by peers, they'll struggle.  I noticed this when looking to hire people for entry level accounting and finance roles over a couple decades ago...their writing skills in particular are atrocious...and it has only gotten worse...

Want better outcomes?  Outlaw all government unions, throw out your school boards and all the politicians...otherwise your only options are private schools (the few good ones, lot of them suck too!) or homeschooling.

[patentlymn]

Phonics is a time tested method used to teach reading especially for English and similar languages. You tackle new words by sounding them out by syllable  according to their sounds. A while back some so called educators came up with a different method maybe whole word method that created a generation of illiterates.

In my experience, my kids' school districts were good because of parents and kids, not the schools. Lots of Asian and Indian kids with involved parents.  Mounds View School District knows how to piss away money.

[Libertas]

Agreed.