Teaching Children to Read, and Failing to

[ndrosen]

Back when I was in high school, I read Rudolf Flesch’s famous book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, which had been published about twenty years earlier, even back then. The dispute over phonics versus other methods continues, and I think that this is one of those cases where the official experts (many perfessers of education) are wrong, and the outsider critics are basically right. Be that as it may, John Stossel is astringently on the side of phonics.