Show threadLSE PressApr 14
"Political theory, historical sense, worrisome texts, unheralded documents, and great storytelling join forces in Herzogโ€™s virtuoso investigation of the brutal fighting over who gets to learn to read..." โ€” Mary G Dietz doi.org/10.31389/lse... #ReadingWars #OpenAccess
Waywords StudioFeb 19

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œโ€™๐—บ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: "๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—š๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด ๐—˜๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€" ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฆ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜€ -

Birkerts has plenty of angst over the demise of the paper book, and I don't share his view, I suspect. But let's give him a fair hearing as he laments the shift from static to dynamic text.

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tulticanMay 12, 2023
John Merrow: There Are No Alphabet Wars - Jeanne Chall insisted that learning to read was never either-or. If alive today she would slap down the journalists insisting that phonics alone is โ€œthe science of reading.โ€ https://dianeravitch.net/2023/05/12/john-merrow-there-are-no-alphabet-wars/ via @dianeravitch #ReadingWars
John Merrow: There Are No Alphabet Wars

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