Phonics vs. balanced #literacy: a battle over the teaching of #reading in the nation’s k-12 #schools. Sorry if I’m being flip; I went through this in the late ‘90s as a research assistant to an education/literacy professor. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/science-of-reading-literacy-parents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
@JaneRLaForge You’re right. It’s the oldest argument in #Education. I’ve avoided it by teaching anything EXCEPT elementary. Now I’m tutoring elementary students in literacy and the ones being taught only phonetics are suffering.
@AlliFlowers I’ve only taught at the college level because I don’t have the patience for k-12–bureaucracy, moral panics, and the children. I can’t do impossible jobs. Thanks for your fortitude.
@JaneRLaForge I spent the majority of my career teaching high school. They understand (or are capable of learning to understand) sarcasm. In many ways they’re easier to deal with than undergrads.
