The Illiterate Age

Using bad science to keep kids from reading:

A story at AMP Reports titled "'Science of reading’ movement spells financial trouble for publisher Heinemann" notes that "The educational publisher raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during the 2010s selling reading programs based on a disproven theory [the now disfavored Common Core]. The company now faces financial fallout, as schools ditch its products." More: The three biggest educational publishers — Heinemann’s parent company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with McGraw Hill and Savvas — are all now marketing their core reading programs as aligned with the science of reading. Lather, rinse, repeat. My home state of Ohio has allocated "$86 million for educator professional development, $64 million for curriculum and instructional materials, and $18 million for literacy coaches." More money down the drain that will do next to nothing to improve the reading ability of children.

If you can read this, you didn't need the "science..."