Embracing Ebonics is anti literacy
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring government school teachers to take a literacy test, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of white teachers failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanic teachers and 59 percent of black teachers failed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.
Nothing will change until that changes.
Y’all need to getcha story straight.
Probably blogs.
“Yes, it’s true. The New York Times came right out and told the world that if you want children to learn to read, they need phonics. No ifs, ands, or buts.”
...and yet most people, EVEN ON THIS SITE, think we’re kooks when we try to tell them that “Sight Words” are not just useless, but are DESTRUCTIVE, regarding a child’s ability to learn to read.
I’d repeat the reasons why they’re destructive, if anyone is interested, but I doubt it. After all, we’re just kooks here.
I’ve been saying for perhaps a decade that if I were Czar, the first thing I would do is dismantle the Colleges of Education. They are the ones who have pushed the Big Lie that sight words are a path to literacy, and it is a monumental failure. The Big Education edifice needs to be completely destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up.
Ping
Surprising!
Well I learned Phonics in the 1950’s and it worked. I just wished it worked on typing. I keep typing in the cracks!
By the looks of it, BOTH!
I would be willing to bet that the author of the NYT article, Emily Hanford, is a parent who has just discovered that her child is having a hard time reading and decided to investigate why her bright child is having problems.
Not a real surprise to many of us.
The "whole word method" prefers kids to guess at what the word may be, rather than actually using the reasoning faculty of their brains and precisely figuring out the word.
Today, any public school using the "whole word method" will have a substantial portion of their students going through reading remediation. And guess what? When they remediate the kids they teach them phonics because it is the only way to teach kid to read properly.
Go figure!
Good Readers
Equate to
Independent Thinkers.
A good friend has branded US public schools as failure factories that turn out barely literate kids by the thousands.
Colorado has the Colorado Early College. High school 9th graders can enter college instead of just high school. They can graduate with an engineering degree at 18.
Just more evidence that the K-12 system is a joke and needs to be demolished. When properly taught, kids can do any subject.