For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars.
beyond the pandemic or structures back. you know, a couple of decades. i ll tell you, though, this is not something i was aware of. until i began digging into this. there is this whole new way of teaching kids to read that. i wasn t aware of about you, but i learned to read on phonics hooked on phonics. you know, you re you re learning letters. you re learning what letters combination makes what makes what sound? there is a whole new way that the end to emerge in the eighties nineties and really took hold in certain parts of the country all over the country, but not every single school. it was popular. a lot of places it s called balanced literacy. and it was this idea that kids should not be sounding out words or they should sound out words as a last resort. it s stunning. it s an idea that you should see that to that on the left balance. literacy, there s those concentric circles. those are the cues that the children supposed to use to try to guess the word so they re reading by gues
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that may be the case here as well. yes. bill: a new special on fox nation. roll this now. the miseducation special that pete is doing. a preview. do you think we should abolish the department of education? yes. i think it would be a wonderful thing for the united states if the department of education were abolished. i would like to see the department of education abolished. it is pointless and shouldn t have ever existed. dana: what will they learn from watching season two of miseducation? season two. the first season was the 100 year progressive take over. they removed god. and moved toward indoctrination. season two is the hyper drive and focus on the youngest of kids and the sexualization but also the reduction of standards. we went from teaching phonics, hooked on phonics worked for me