#dumbingdown

[monriatitans]

LITERACY QUOTE OF THE DAY

“In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Now that is gone, and the youngsters have their glazed eyes fixed on the television tube. The result is clear. True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily ‘dumbing down’.” – Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

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[edworld]

Memo to K-12: Teach kids to read in FIRST GRADE or get out of education. That’s the “Marva Collins Challenge”

Truth is, we have tens of millions of people who could claim to read in some sense. But they can't reach the important threshold that so many of us take for granted: reading for pleasure.

Lucy Calkins has been the queen of reading for the last 25 years. Her bad prescriptions were merely echoing the bad prescriptions of Professors Frank Smith and Ken Goodman, and before them the literacy pretenders who introduced Whole Word in the 1930s.

Here’s what all the false prophets taught: English is read by memorizing thousands of sight-words. As that is hugely difficult for most children, they should follow other clues: use context; consider initial letters; guess; skip ahead, consider picture clues. This nonsense almost guarantees illiteracy. 

Balanced Literacy is now jargon for try-anything-maybe-you’ll-get-lucky.

During most of the time Lucy was preaching her fake theory, I was writing articles saying hey, this is obviously bad theory. I enjoy thinking I made a small contribution to her ideas being rejected by Columbia University and Teachers College. 

(Here's some background: "Episode 118: Reading Rescued" -- https://letsfixeducation.buzzsprout.com/1792553/13712120-episode-118-reading-rescued-thanks-to-lucy-calkins-oct-4-2023 )

The knowledge was always there for anybody who cared to listen. Rudolf Flesch wrote his famous book in 1955 explaining that sight-words are the reason Why Johnny Can't Read.

More recently, Marva Collins, who operated her own school in Chicago, stated: Most children can learn to read in first grade!

My message to the slackers of education: if you can't do what Marva did, you should retire.

English is a phonetic language and must be taught with phonetics, i.e. phonics. It's a vast language with nearly 1,000,000 words but only someone with a photographic memory can memorize even 500 sight-words. Literacy rates have dropped continuously since the imposition of sight-words. That’s all you need to know to reject sight-words.

Here is Marva Collins in her book Marva Collins’ Way: “Children as young as 3-1/2 to 4 years of age, are admitted to my school at the beginning of every school year in September.

I guarantee that they will all be reading by Christmas, three months later. That has been the results since I started my school in 1975.”

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Here's where we are now. If you search the terms balanced literacy, science of reading and similar, you will find a shocking array of conflicting opinions about how to teach reading. I doubt there has ever been such chaos in the Education Establishment.

I suspect one of the things the professors learned from almost a century of promoting bad ideas is that you don't need to win every argument, or enforce every opinion. You only need to inject a bad habit or two in every student. They will be damaged and literacy will continue to decline. I believe that is the goal.

So all the confusion is not necessarily a weakness. People don't realize where each kid is being damaged the most. So a lot of bad instruction will continue in plain sight.

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If you are hoping that sight-words do work, see this video. Only seven minutes and you'll know the horror.

“How Dolch Words Cause Illiteracy and Dyslexia”

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CODA: We need to get the whole country involved at a little higher level.  That's how we get the reform we need. See Episode 118 on Let's Fix Education

 .https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/13791258

#sightwords  #phonics   #illiteracy   #communism       #agitprop #dyslexia   #knowledge   #teachers  #literature  #books  #academicsuccess #dumbingdown  #ignorance    #K12  #literary #dolchwords

[globobro]

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[gordonsparks]

As Black people, we MUST stop the normalcy of the “N” word. I’m writing this as I’m watching a 17 year old kid fail to construct basic sentences without inserting it. It’s literally every other word. #stop #dumbingdown #our #culture ✊🏾 #socialjustice #America

[7percentphilosophy]

"We're in a never ending cycle of stupidity and dumbification" It's a vicious cycle

[backroombuzz]

Study Shows Democrats Succeeded In Dumbing Down America

A new study shows that just 33% of Americans can pass a multiple choice "U.S. Citizenship Test." 

It seems the Democrats plan to "Dumb-Down America" was a huge success.   READ MORE: http://bluepillsheep.com/democrats-dumbing-down-america/  Read the full article

[thejudahite]

Every year is a chance to take back the minds of our children by getting involved in #homeschooling. #sabbath #babylon #dumbingdown

[seekingraesmiles-blog]

Tuesday’s thoughts: Once upon a time, I hated school because I was the youngest and I allowed myself to feel inadequate. That’s no longer an issue and now I never want to stop learning. • Side note: I totally just teared up. • #read #literacy #learn #ask #dumbingdown #cynthiaozick #tuesday #foodforthought #pursuit #believe #free #quotes #instagram #hashtag #culture #question #speech #auralculture #brain #healthy #mind #soul #body #books #library

[monriatitans]

STUPIDITY QUOTE 1 OF 3

Thursday, August 31, 2023

[mellyhatchet]

This stupid shit is why kids eat tide pods. WTF kind of math is this??? Phoenix's 1st grade math homework. I'm dropping IQ points trying to understand why there's a fucking 10 to begin with??! #dumbingdown #1stgrademath #1stgrade #WTFisThisShit #homework #areyoudumberthanarock #areyouserious #math #momlife https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LOyJHAJIt/?igshid=1lm1pj1aw760s

[frankknizza]

When all the special kids get together, it’s nothing short of special! 📸: @yfmphoto #GoingDumb #DumbOut #dumbingdown #HipHop (at Bph bushwick party house) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByLLoliH4_o/?igshid=12jnjgzskb5nn

[ebishopwooten]

#education #dumbingdown #commonsense https://www.instagram.com/p/BumAv2wA4lw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xjga3r351w5g

[43wolves]

#Repost @standup911 ・・・ Keep drinking the #KoolAid tho 🐸☕️. #standup911 #fuckthesystem #bethechange #fluoride #dumbingdown #people

[jessestoddard]

The Gentrification of Cuss Words

Cuss words, the F-word, in particular, has undergone rapid gentrification over the last few years. Just as improving a house or district to conform to middle-class taste can force some people out of the neighborhood, I notice some non-swearing folks are feeling marginalized.

Read More: https://jessestoddard.com/the-gentrification-of-cuss-words/

[agape-philo-sophia]

“They realized they were making the students too smart, they were over educating their students, they made them too intelligent, and they wanted to make them more service industry [oriented]… So they changed the actual collegiate systems in the United States as a part of Trilateral Commision’s study. So it’s very clear that the government is far more intelligent than the society, and they’ve gone out of their way to create these over-emotional situations that keep people diametrically opposed to each other based upon the news that is poured down our throats and rips our brains right out of our heads, […] rather than focusing on the real problem.“ — Dr. Roger Landry This began to change in the mid-19th century when American academics became enamored with Prussian schools. Prussia, a modern day Sparta organized for constant warfare, purposefully designed its school system to create obedient soldiers, workers, and civil servants. Thomas Alexander wrote in 1919: “The Prussian is to a large measure enslaved through the medium of his school…his learning instead of making him his own master forges the chain by which he is held in servitude…the whole scheme of Prussian elementary education is shaped with the express purpose of making ninety five out of every hundred citizens subservient to the ruling house and to the state.” “Our schools are…factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned.” ➝ If You Read This and are Not Outraged, Then the System has Worked: https://www.minds.com/blog/view/765898043718377482?referrer=MindCom -------------------------------------------------- #DumbingDown #ZombieSlave #Poisoning #Enslavement #Conditioning

[mrtoddbradley]

Back to “The State of America” Americans have a huge problem and it’s Big Pharma. #pharma #pharmacy #drugs #america #dumbingdown #drugaddiction #addiction #addictionstigma #selfloathing #mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalhealthawareness #mentalillnessawareness #opioids #opiodcrisis #usgovernment #mrtoddbradley #adobelife @lightroom @photoshop #bigpharma