If anything, this is an example of systemic classism. But it is really about how capitalism works. Facts are in a capitalistic based economy, those that make more, are able to get more/better of everything. While it has been obvious for a while that whole word reading failed compared to phonetics, the basic problem is with children from …
If anything, this is an example of systemic classism. But it is really about how capitalism works. Facts are in a capitalistic based economy, those that make more, are able to get more/better of everything. While it has been obvious for a while that whole word reading failed compared to phonetics, the basic problem is with children from poverty circumstances. Jonathon Kozol writing in the 1960s-1980s pointed out the inequalities of schools and for the most part we have remedied it (still some really poor school systems spread out over the country). He also wrote on adult illiteracy. 21% of adults in the USA are illiterate. But over 40% of those are using English as a second or third language. If you would take out those folks, then illiteracy would line up directly with poverty. And poverty can not be remedied merely by the schools. The real enemy to literacy is and has been poverty and that is what needs to be worked on. FYI, Black poverty has dropped from 32% to 17-18% in the last 30 years. Still a ways to go, but it's not like, as a country, we aren't continue to try and improve in this category. Even white poverty (7-8%) is extremely problematic. Looking to the schools to remedy stratification of wealth/income is a wrong headed approach.
If anything, this is an example of systemic classism. But it is really about how capitalism works. Facts are in a capitalistic based economy, those that make more, are able to get more/better of everything. While it has been obvious for a while that whole word reading failed compared to phonetics, the basic problem is with children from poverty circumstances. Jonathon Kozol writing in the 1960s-1980s pointed out the inequalities of schools and for the most part we have remedied it (still some really poor school systems spread out over the country). He also wrote on adult illiteracy. 21% of adults in the USA are illiterate. But over 40% of those are using English as a second or third language. If you would take out those folks, then illiteracy would line up directly with poverty. And poverty can not be remedied merely by the schools. The real enemy to literacy is and has been poverty and that is what needs to be worked on. FYI, Black poverty has dropped from 32% to 17-18% in the last 30 years. Still a ways to go, but it's not like, as a country, we aren't continue to try and improve in this category. Even white poverty (7-8%) is extremely problematic. Looking to the schools to remedy stratification of wealth/income is a wrong headed approach.