{"product_id":"the-new-illiterates-revisited-meg-rayborn-dawson-9798861016209","title":"The New Illiterates (Revisited): And How to Keep Your Child from Becoming One","description":"\u003cb\u003eEXPOSED: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Educational malpractice on a scale that can only stagger the imagination and shock the American people;\u003cbr\u003e- How the child is made completely dependent-right through to junior high school-on controlled-vocabulary books. Who benefits from this;\u003cbr\u003e- How three-quarters of the juvenile offenders in New York City are retarded in reading;\u003cbr\u003e- How the Army teaches young men how to read - after the public schools call them hopeless;\u003cbr\u003e- How the sight-vocabulary establishment got its stranglehold on the teaching profession. How it keeps control;\u003cbr\u003e- The lengths to which whole-word advocates go to avoid mentioning the letters of the alphabet;\u003cbr\u003e- Why left-handed children are particularly harmed by the whole word method;\u003cbr\u003e- Why children taught by the whole-word method don't realize they should read from left to right;\u003cbr\u003e- The \"Johnny\" Rudolf Flesch wrote about: now he's an adult. And he still can't read;\u003cbr\u003e- Walter Cronkite warns of the dangers of a TV audience that is illiterate;\u003cbr\u003e- Why the educational establishment fights anyone who pushes reform;\u003cbr\u003e- Why some children develop a hatred for school and disrespect their teachers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meg Rayborn Dawson, David L. Ryan, Samuel L. Blumenfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8861016200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798861016209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Meg Rayborn Dawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829429989631,"sku":"9798861016209","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7c47775-0d23-41c8-aae1-75edd50dc54d.jpg?v=1708450779","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-illiterates-revisited-meg-rayborn-dawson-9798861016209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}