This really shows the evils of govt bureaucracy. Bad ideas live forever and all attempts to change for the better are fought tooth and nail.
Now that the barn door is closed. John Dewey and James Kirkpatrick wanted to dumb down the American public, to stop them from reading The Federalist Papers and the Bible and to stop reading the classics. They insisted that all the children would be equal if they were taught using the whole world word method, so that they looked at phonetic words like Chinese ideograms. Mission accomplished, American kids are safely stupid for Socialism.