• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    No. They are talking about how phonics and “sounding out” words wasn’t taught for a while. It was a very damaging fad in academics. It produced a generation of kids who cannot read and cannot spell.

    Very similar to what happened with “new math” mess of the 1960s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math