{"id":30255,"date":"2019-09-13T20:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T01:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30255"},"modified":"2019-09-13T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T01:58:58","slug":"briefly-education-consultant-learns-his-daughters-kindergarten-teaches-reading-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30255","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Education consultant learns his daughter\u2019s kindergarten teaches reading nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kids-learning-to-read.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30256\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kids-learning-to-read.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kids-learning-to-read.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kids-learning-to-read-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if your daughter were about to start kindergarten and you went to the affluent school where she was about to go and discovered that the school was teaching nonsense? That\u2019s exactly what happened to an education consultant in Colorado who recently visited his daughter\u2019s new school. Everybody was nice, but when the kindergarten teacher talked about their methods of teaching reading, he cringed. She was using \u201cprogressive\u201d methods that were debunked decades ago. He\u2019s learning that most schools use similar techniques that don\u2019t work, simply because schools of education are committed to ideas and techniques based on ideology instead of cognitive science. So why do so many people entrust their children\u2019s future to these well-meaning but incompetent people? It\u2019s one of the most underreported scandals of modern learning. Read his <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhaminstitute.org\/national\/commentary\/scourge-education-malpractice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summary of what he\u2019s found here<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmreports.org\/story\/2019\/08\/22\/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out the radio documentary<\/a> to which he refers where you can find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if your daughter were about to start kindergarten and you went to the affluent school where she was about to go and discovered that the school was teaching nonsense? That\u2019s exactly what happened to an education consultant in Colorado who recently visited his daughter\u2019s new school. Everybody was nice, but when the kindergarten teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30255\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7RZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30257,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions\/30257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}