"Between whole language and evolution who knows what is happening to the
minds and bodies of our children."
Ken Goodman
FRAP428 who-is-at aol.com wrote:
>
> Quotation below might interest you. Frances R. A. Paterson
>
> President's Report, March 1999 (National Association of Christian
> Educators/Citizens for Excellence in Education), p. 2.
>
> CEE has strongly opposed "whole-language" reading programs that abandoned
> phonics ten years ago. Finally, California has totally rejected the concept of
> whole-language,in favor of restoring a full-blown intensive phonics program.
> Thank God for great Christian statesmen like Samuel L. Blumenfeld, educator
> extraordinaire, who never gave up opposing whole-language and promoting
> intensive phonics programs. Using his research and our own, CEE put out
> research and then converted that information to political reality -- and voila
> -- victory! But, painstaking victory. Hard fought, "never give-up" victory.
> God's faithful Christians who have supported us so faithfully have been the
> real heroes in these victories.
--
Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
fax 520 7456895 phone 520 6217868
These are mean times- and in the mean time
We need to Learn to Live Under Water