Just wondering in the “Science of Reading” is just another renamed sight reading program that claims to have a phonics foundation.
That’s what the education publishers do. Rename their garbage materials and claim this time they really are superior , teach phonics and will have the chilfren raeding at grade leve in mere months for the low cost of just $$$$ per student.
But wait! There’s more! Education publishing is full of ShanWow artists with a PhD in Education on their name tag.
Retired teacher & saw this all the time. Everything is renamed, rebooted, & nothing good comes out of it. Well yes something does: a whole lot of the school district’s money to, as you brilliantly put it, “the sham wow” grifters. The only difference is that the as seen on tv stuff usually works & does what it states.
The grifter market in education is HUGE! We always wondered what goodies the administration got for adapting yet another soon to be forgotten scam.