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NCLB's Reading Program Doesn't Improve Reading
Topic Started: May 1 2008, 08:30 AM (112 Views)
QuirtEvans
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=topnews
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Kincaid
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Hookt on fonix rilly duz wurk!

We need to abolish the Dept of Education and go back to local control.

My wife employs about four or five different teaching techniques because she realizes, as do most teachers, that you reach (and teach) different kids in different ways. This one size fits all crap that comes down from on high (and appears driven by politics no matter who is in charge) is only going to work for some kids.

If they switch back to comprehension and throw phonics out the window, they are going to lose some kids and gain others - and realize no net gain overall. What is just about as bad is that every few years the schools throw out some curriculum and jump on a new band wagon -only to find out that there is good and bad in most programs.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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QuirtEvans
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Kincaid
May 1 2008, 11:39 AM
My wife employs about four or five different teaching techniques because she realizes, as do most teachers, that you reach (and teach) different kids in different ways. This one size fits all crap that comes down from on high (and appears driven by politics no matter who is in charge) is only going to work for some kids.

If they switch back to comprehension and throw phonics out the window, they are going to lose some kids and gain others - and realize no net gain overall. What is just about as bad is that every few years the schools throw out some curriculum and jump on a new band wagon -only to find out that there is good and bad in most programs.

Smart woman. I said exactly the same thing in a different thread yesterday at WTF.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Mark
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We need to abolish the Dept of Education and go back to local control.


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Along with several other ineffective federal agencies.
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Aqua Letifer
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Mark
May 1 2008, 10:22 AM
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We need to abolish the Dept of Education and go back to local control.


:thumb:

Along with several other ineffective federal agencies.

I say we abolish the U.S. Mail and use the money for fixing up the health care system.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Kincaid
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I think abolition of the U.S. Mail is not a bad idea - but I think the money saved should go toward helping people get email. Of course, that would put my Dad out of work two years before retirement!
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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United States Postal Service --> privatization
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