by Valerie Strauss for The Washington Post The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in Massachusetts), advocated that children learn to read whole words and learn to read for meaning before they are taught the... The post On the latest obsession with phonics appeared first on Reading Kingdom Blog. via Reading Kingdom Blog https://ift.tt/onYG835
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