[etni] [FWD: JP article]

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 Subject: JP article
 From: "Ronald Green" <greenelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
 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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