The Fordham Insitute, a non-partisan think-tank in Washington (DC, US) that affiliates with the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, has released a report entitled Whole-Language High Jinks that exposes the misrepresentations of some reading programs which claim to have a firm evidencary base, but actually do not. The report was written Louisa Moats and provides school officials, parents, and teachers advice about how to spot instructional programs that Professor Moats says are only pretenders to the status of being “scientifically based.”
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Daily Archive for January 29th, 2007
Today’s the day that chapter 2, Project Follow Through Begins, of Zig Engelmann’s book, The Outrage of Project Follow Through: 5 million failed kids later, becomes available at http://zigsite.com. To secure your free copy, you need to download it within the next two weeks.
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