Archive for Patrick Groff
Whole Language: Emancipatory Pedagogy or Socialist Nonsense?
Patrick Groff is professor of education emeritus at San Diego State University. The “whole language” method of reading instruction is a highly popular, yet experimentally discredited teaching innovation. The educational principle that governs it falsely states that students best learn to read in the same informal, natural manner they previously learned to speak as preschoolers. [...]
1Jul2000 | Patrick Groff | 1 comment | ContinuedWhen Entrepreneurs Become Victims
Dr. Groff is professor emeritus of education at San Diego State University. For a capitalist economy to function, entrepreneurs must not be subject to gratuitous or capricious government action. It is a violation of the cardinal precepts of free markets, as well as common moral sensibilities, for government to publicly vilify legitimate entrepreneurs. The Federal [...]
1Jul1996 | Patrick Groff | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Race, Evolution, and Behavior by J. Philippe Rushton
Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, NJ • 1995 • 334 pages • $30.00 The common reactions to Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve doubtless are familiar to most readers of The Freeman. No informed person should feel fully versed on the issues that The Bell Curve raises, however, until first reading J. Philippe Rushton’s [...]
1Nov1995 | Patrick Groff | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas by Thomas Sowell
The Free Press • 368 pages • $24.95 One searches in vain for euphemistic comments about his subject in Thomas Sowell’s scathing new criticism of our nation’s educational systems. “I have long been appalled by the low quality and continuing deterioration of American education,” Sowell bluntly asserts. From my vantage point as a longtime true [...]
1Jun1994 | Patrick Groff | 2 comments | Continued-
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