The truth of the results was squelched.
Why? We can only guess. It may be because university professors' careers are made on new, unproven philosophies. Or that curriculum planners and textbook publishers get rich off of printing and pushing every new idea that comes along. Or that lobbyist for them are buying legislators. If one can't read well, one can't study the issues and vote intelligently. And so on.
It's the purposeful dumbing-down of America. Alarming, isn't it?!
With the rise of sight-reading has come the rise of dyslexia. (Phonics readers do not develop dyslexia.)
This academic child-abuse is knowingly perpetrated by educational and government leaders. Insidious.
Phonics is the scientifically-proven way to help all children achieve, as discussed in Vol. 3 & 4 of "It's Not Rocket Surgery!"
The 4-decade study results never made it into the hands of those who count - school districts and legislators.
In the words of Bonnie Grossen, editor at the University of Oregon, http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adiep/ft/grossen.htm:
“That the scientific knowledge we have about education needs to be better disseminated is clear. At the very least, the models that failed, even to the point of producing lower levels of performance, should not be the educational models being adopted in public policy. Yet they are. (See next article).
“…every educator in the country should know that, in the history of education, no educational model has ever been documented to achieve such positive results with such consistency across so many variable sites as Direct Instruction. It never happened before PFT, and it hasn't happened since. What Wes, Zig, and their associates accomplished in Project FT should be recognized as one of the most important educational accomplishments in history. Not enough people know this.” (See previous articles.)
Don’t let your baby read by sight words! Reading - the right way - is hearing with your eyes - phonics, phonics, phonics!
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