Archive for Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Why Our Children Can’t Read and What We Can Do About It
Samuel Blumenfeld has written extensively on education. His books include Is Public Education Necessary? (1981) and The Whole Language/OBE Fraud (1996). This is a very valuable and useful book, especially for those of us in the reading instruction field who have been engaged in a long, drawn-out war with the teaching establishment. The first shots [...]
1Aug1998 | Samuel L. Blumenfeld | 0 comments | Continued-
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For Equality; Against Privilege
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