To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Part of the process was “scientific” racism programming. Lots of people today believe that black or Mexican children can’t learn to read, because they have marginally lower average IQs than white or Asian students. Never mind the fact that practically everyone’s IQ was lower a few generations ago ... when malnutrition was the standard, rather than the exception ... yet, children instructed with phonics learned to read. Children drilled in math facts learned to do arithmetic. Children drilled in penmanship could write.
2 posted on
02/20/2014 3:52:03 PM PST by
Tax-chick
(The future is not going to take us seriously.)
To: Tax-chick
In the 1960's the The Stratemeyer Syndicate had the books in the Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and other series rewritten. They dropped the number of chapters from 25 to 20 because children wouldn't read such long books anymore.
It is interesting when you read the original and the rewrite and see how much even then schools were failing.
4 posted on
02/20/2014 4:02:12 PM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: Tax-chick
11 posted on
02/20/2014 8:22:06 PM PST by
BenLurkin
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To: Tax-chick
Where was malnutrition “standard”?
12 posted on
02/21/2014 4:58:28 AM PST by
SWAMPSNIPER
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