http://nottrivialbook.com/2012/04/11/why-did-the-educators-in-the-u-s-abandon-phonics/ How Studying the Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 http://nottrivialbook.com/2012/04/11/why-did-the-educators-in-the-u-s-abandon-phonics/#comment-5 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:23:34 +0000 http://nottrivialbook.com/2012/04/11/why-did-the-educators-in-the-u-s-abandon-phonics/#comment-5 Yes. It is sad. I wrote my book Not Trivial to explain this problem. Please help to spread the word! Thanks!

]]> http://nottrivialbook.com/2012/04/11/why-did-the-educators-in-the-u-s-abandon-phonics/#comment-6 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 01:51:57 +0000 http://nottrivialbook.com/2012/04/11/why-did-the-educators-in-the-u-s-abandon-phonics/#comment-6 As a teacher, my great sadness is the continuing lack of real, systematic phonics and spelling in our schools. Balanced and Levelled Literacy is in full swing, and, in many states, it is pure Whole Language. Parents do not even know. So sad.

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