by Carol A. Josel | May 21, 2025 | Carol A Josel, Education reform, Making Education News, Reading Wars
AS IT STANDS TODAY Reportedly, 75% of our elementary schools currently use basals, filled with short stories that DON’T gradually get harder, thus making pacing difficult. To date, at least 8 states have introduced or passed bills that aim to end the teaching of...
by Carol A. Josel | May 19, 2025 | Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Reading Wars
Whole Word and Whole Language now reign AND SO… 1970 to 1980: Commissioner of Education James E. Allen launches the Right-to-Read Program, a literacy call-to-arms. He gives up after ten years, saying, “Whole Word is too ingrained.” 1975: Phonics proponent Marva...
by Carol A. Josel | May 14, 2025 | Academics, Making Education News, Reading Wars
ABOUT LOOK/SAY (WHOLE WORD) and WHOLE LANGUAGE: 1929: Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a pioneer in the study of learning disabilities and dyslexia, warns educators: “The sight word method would cause reading disabilities among a very large number of...
by Carol A. Josel | May 9, 2025 | Carol A Josel
~ English: 26 letters and 44 distinct sounds (phonemes) AND AROUND AND AROUND WE GO… The term Science of Reading first appeared in the 1836 issue of The American Annals of Education and Instruction, waited 174 years to make a comeback in 2010,...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 26, 2025 | AI in Education News, Carol A Josel, Technology in Education
While Learning Together author Elham Kazem and others suggest that school leaders should work with teachers to analyze student writing more regularly…,” Education Week’s Sarah Schwartz tells us: “[There is] an emerging group of middle and high school teachers using...
