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THE NEW ILLITERATES And how to keep your child from becoming one
THE NEW ILLITERATES And how to keep your child from becoming one Author:Samuel L. Blumenfeld 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. *Retarded in reading: three-quarters of the juvenile offenders in New York City *How the Ar... more »my 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. Lobbies *The lengths to which whole-world advocates go to avoid mentioning the letters of the alphbet *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 illerate *Why the educational establishment fights anyone who pushes reform *Why some children develop a hatred for school and disrespect their teachers *Why the usual definitions of illiteracy are inadequate - and misleading. PLUS 4 BONUSES FOR EVERY READER Bonus 1: Easy-to-understand primer, complete with step-by-step instructions for teaching your preschool child to read at home. Bonus 2: A glossary of educational and reading terms. Bonus 3: Evaluations of the major textbook series used today. Bonus 4: Full text of a devastating critique of the look-say, whole-word teaching method - written 1844!« less