[etni] Re: [FWD: JP article]
- From: Barry <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:29:46 +0200
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why did israel continue to use the ace-whole language approach long after
it was junked by the rest of the world (except for Lower Slobenia)??
Because it was backed by the daughter of a major political figure.
Your homework, mr phelps is to find out who, and report back to me after the
fast.
B.S. To all my bereft fans, wondering what ever happened to me:
(My colomb will return as soon as i start writing it.)
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> From Friday's Jerusalem Post:
>
> "...Prof. Yaacov Katz, chairman of the pedagogical secretariat of the
> Ministry of Education. Katz, currently the most influential pedagogue
> in the
> Israeli system, points to reading instruction as a prime example of
> failure:
> Instead of phonetics, the country used the US-developed "whole word"
> reading
> method, a challenge for all but the top students, according to Katz. It
> took
> Israeli schools years - long after the method had been debunked in
> America -
> to realize that kids were taking much longer than before to come to
> grips
> with reading.
>
> 'It was a very bad decision,' Katz says. 'They just took what was
> fashionable at the time and that was a recipe for disaster.'
>
> 'Now,' he says, 'a lot of people have a vested interest in keeping all
> these
> failed methods alive.'
>
> Teachers, school inspectors and program developers have all made their
> careers on the failed methods...
>
>
> (Jerusalem Post UP Front, July 23, 2004, p. 14.)
>
> Ronald Green
>
>
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