Kâ12: At Last, Academics Acknowledge the Reading Crisis

Frida Ghitis: Academics have ignored Rudolf Flesch's famous book explaining why Johnny can't read.

Ghitis says schools don't bother with geography, arithmetic, history, basic science, etc. She says subversives have won the battle to take knowledge away from the people of the U.S. Anecdotally , she says, I have literally never met a professor, who did not share my experienceGhitis: Education establishment has shown genius at deliberately selecting theories and methods that, despite the rosy claims, don't work.

Bruce Deitrick Price : Phonics experts insist they can teach virtually all children to read in the first grade.

He says they make phonics sound complicated, but it's easy to memorize the letters, names, sounds, and that English reads left to right.

Price: The melancholy thing about K12 is that so few upscale people bother noticing the rot.

A reasonable goal would be twice the education for less than half the price.