"Back to Basics"
The United Kingdom is returning to Phonics: Teaching reading set for overhaul.

Imagine this, from the article:

This very traditional method involves children learning letter sounds first and then gradually blending sounds to form words.

Phonics was the main way reading was taught for many years until the 1960s when other systems were introduced, including teaching children to remember whole words.

Recent trials in Scotland found children taught to read using synthetic phonics were three years ahead of their peers who were taught with other methods by the age of 11.

Dare they suggest that it is not effective to teach English as if it were an ideographic language like Chinese, as the Whole Language Ideology would have it? Say it ain't so!

Some lady professors tried to indoctrinate us into this sinister ideology during my M.Ed. course. Based largely on the theories of Soviet psychologist* Lev Vygotsky, it was clearly nonsense. These lady professors were either extremely naïve, or they were sincere Cultural Communists, whose goal was and is the destruction of America.

Let's pray that America follows suit. Either way, it won't affect my children, who will never set foot in a state school. As a citizen of the Unites States, however, I can be unmoved as yet another functionally illiterate generation is set loose on society.

*These two words together should strike fear into any thinking person.