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Colorado has spent hundreds of millions to help kids read. $5.2 on why it’s not working./Trunc
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| 20 Nov, 2019
| Ann Schimke
Posted on 11/20/2019 6:17:38 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: george76
Because it is a government program. They should send me the consultant funding.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:19:46 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber; george76
Phonics, not the “whole word” BS.
‘...review could last up to six and a half years.’
Gee, how much will this cost the taxpayers?
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:19:54 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
To: MtnClimber
“The review could last up to six and a half years.” How convenient, a good long time for a cozy taxpayer financed job.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:20:20 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: All
And if you think it will only cost 5.2 million, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:21:05 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
To: Fungi
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:22:01 PM PST
by
Hieronymus
("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
To: dynachrome
Phonics worked for centuries. Whole word, once fully implemented,failed in a decade.
so there you have it. Where do I pick up my 5.2 mil?
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:30:01 PM PST
by
D Rider
To: MtnClimber
They should put the $5.2 mil in a fund to support homeschooling.
It would make more of a difference.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:36:25 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: D Rider
What a sweet deal. Almost a million dollars a year for six years. And you should know the answer before you start!
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:39:16 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
For a couple of bucks the Colorado Ed Dept could buy a used copy of a book on phonics, put it into practice system wide, then presto! problem solved. But they do not see reading as an educational value now. Spending money is the value sought.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:40:10 PM PST
by
arthurus
(u-yk_,,|||II:Iiii-|*',")
To: dynachrome
...review could last up to six and a half years.Half the span of a public school education.
That's a lot of kids left to flounder while they figure out how dumb the educators are.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:42:05 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: MtnClimber
"Because it is a government program." No. Because the money is being spent/stolen by Demmacrats, and the ""teachers" are all Demmacrats. The great majority of government system failures are Democrat. And all government unions mast be outlawed.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:46:43 PM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Pray for President Donald J. Trump, Sydney Powell, James O'Keefe, and Thomas J. Fitton.)
To: MtnClimber
Just let Evil Roy Slade threaten them with a shoehorn and they will learn to read!
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:54:16 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: MtnClimber
instead of spending all that money, mandate full-immersion English-as-a-first-language classes starting in pre-school. Encourage the students to encourage their parents to speak English in the home as part of whole learning. It worked 50 years ago, it can work now.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:54:25 PM PST
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: MtnClimber; MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; backspace; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; ...
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:55:42 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: dynachrome
First, they have to teach the teachers how to read.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:55:43 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: MtnClimber
Why does it matter. This is the only thing they need to know to read come election time
'D'
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posted on
11/20/2019 7:06:50 PM PST
by
Bommer
(2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
To: MtnClimber
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks 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.
Dollars to doughnuts the same thing is true of Colofornia.
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posted on
11/20/2019 7:18:36 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: dynachrome
Phonics, not the whole word BS.Worked for me
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posted on
11/20/2019 7:20:27 PM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: MtnClimber
Because the parents are worthless scum who don’t give a flip.
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posted on
11/20/2019 7:26:25 PM PST
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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