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Multiculturalism & the Loss of Americanism
Exploring the Homeschooling Arguments of the 80’s & 90’s – Reviewing old Editorials in the Light of our Present Day The Blumenfeld Education Letter Revisited Vol 1, No 1 (pt. 1) – Sept. 1986 (NOTE: The following editorial has been quoted … Continue reading
Posted in Americanism, education, education reform, God Bless America, homeschooling, Multicultural Education, multiculturalism, Phonics, Reading, teaching, Teaching Moral Anarchy, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, History of American Education, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, phonemic awareness, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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How to SUCCEED – or FAIL – at Teaching Reading
I found an old self-printed book which has some very useful information about teaching reading and I think some of the ideas presented there are worth sharing. The book (How the Alphabet Works: a handbook for teaching someone to read … Continue reading
Posted in Christian education, classical education, Functional Illiteracy, grandmother teacher, Home Schooling – Why Do It?, homeschooling, How not to teach reading, How to teach reading, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Reading, teaching, tutoring
Tagged look-say method, Phonics or Whole Language??, Samuel Blumenfeld, sight method, systematic phonics, the problem with look-say instruction, the problem with the sight method, the problem with whole word instruction, whole word method, you can teach your kids to read at home
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States Can’t Bar Religious Schools From Tax-Based Tuition Funds (MRCTV.org)
SCOTUS Rules States Can’t Bar Religious Schools From Tax-Based Tuition Funds P. GARDNER GOLDSMITH | JUNE 23, 2022 (www.mrctv.org) In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled late Tuesday that the state of Maine has been acting … Continue reading
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The Stigma of Dyslexia
Sometime, somewhere, within the history of American education, it was decided that it was not good to write with the left hand. Writing this way was often punished. I learned of just such an example, in the most unusual of … Continue reading
Posted in Dr. Neil Alexander-Passe, education, homeschooling, left-handed punishment, Phonics, Reading, Stigma of Dyslexia, teaching, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC's, Homeschooling, How to Teach Reading, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Miss Cora & the Kentucky Mountain People
The Kentucky Girl (commencement speech on graduating from teacher’s college) While other girls were posing, their charms being exhibited, their characteristics discussed. There has lived and walked, among the evergreen pines and the sturdy oaks, of the mountains of Kentucky, a creature … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, teaching, tutoring
Tagged adult illiteracy, Alpha-Phonics, Cora Wilson Stewart, Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC's, Kentucky Moonlight Schools, Meg Rayborn Dawson, Samuel Blumenfeld, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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The Irish Mom who gave her Son a Voice
Tragedy Leaves a Young Girl without a Family “At the time many children were playing on the street as several women from the tenements sat on the pavement watching on. Yet within minutes the scene was one of screams and dust … Continue reading
Posted in Cerebral Palsy, Christy Brown, education, homeschooling, My Left Foot, Phonics, Reading, Reviews of Alpha-Phonics, schools, special education, teaching, tutoring
Tagged Alpha-Phonics, Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC's, Homeschooling, How to Tutor, teaching reading, Teaching Reading in the Homeschool, teaching reading with love
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Censorship & Propaganda – The Theft of Voice
If you have spent much time around children, especially quarrelling children, you may have observed disputes over who gets to explain what just happened. Here are some examples which I have witnessed. Children rushing toward me with their mouths full … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Homescoolers academically perform very well, Phonics, Reading, schools, teaching, tutoring, Uncategorized
Tagged Ain't I a Woman, Alpha-Phonics, frederick douglass, History of American Education, Homeschooling, josiah henson, propaganda, reading, reading and writing, Samuel Blumenfeld, slave narratives, Sojourner Truth, systematic phonics, teaching reading, Uncle Tom's Cabin, voice, you can teach your kids to read at home
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Reading, Writing & Endangered Voices
I shall never forget my first attempts to learn to spell. I was about thirteen years of age, when I nearly lost my life because I made an effort to gain this kind of knowledge. Josiah Henson A Murderous Uprising … Continue reading
Posted in education, homeschooling, Phonics, Reading, Reviews of Alpha-Phonics, teaching, tutoring
Tagged Ain't I a Woman, Alpha-Phonics, dictators, Dyslexia no More: Saved by the ABC's, frederick douglass, freedom of speech, harriet beecher stowe, josiah henson, propaganda, slave narratives, Sojourner Truth, systematic phonics, you can teach your kids to read at home
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My 5th Graders Like Taking Math Tests
ASSESSMENT My 5th Graders Like Taking Math Tests By rebranding exams as ‘checkpoints’ and administering them every two weeks, this school has seen a dramatic decrease in testing anxiety. By Steven Goldman April 7, 2022 ZUMA Press Inc / Alamy Stock … Continue reading
Suits Challenging Book “Banning” May Be Better Politics than Law
Suits Challenging Book “Banning” May Be Better Politics than Law School boards can’t suppress ideas they dislike but do have “broad discretion” Joshua Dunn The McGinn County Board of Education voted to remove Maus from its curriculum. America is experiencing … Continue reading
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Tagged America is experiencing another spasm of conflict over book banning in public schools., however, instances where limiting students’ access to materials, particularly in libraries, School boards can’t suppress ideas they dislike but do have “broad discretion”, School districts have the authority to make these kinds of curricular choices., There are
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Alpha-Phonics
The Alphabet Song!
Water on the Floor
Alpha-Phonics the Book on CD Rom
Blumenfeld Oral Reading Assessment Test
How To Tutor
How To Tutor Cursive Handwriting Workbook
