What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning

Here is an unusual post by a writer and filmmaker that takes a deep look into the worlds of children and learning. It was written by Carol Black, director of the documentary film “Schooling the World” and creator with her husband Neal Marlens of the television series “The Wonder Years.” She studied literature and education at Swarthmore College and UCLA, and for the past 25 years has been deeply involved in the unschooling and alternative education movements as a parent, activist, and teacher of writing and filmmaking. She has two grown daughters, neither of whom has ever taken a standardized test. This appeared on her blog, and I have been given permission to publish it. It is long but worth your time. (Bold-facing was done by the author.)

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The following statement somehow showed up on my Twitter feed the other day:

“Spontaneous reading happens for a few kids. The vast majority
need (and all can benefit from) explicit instruction in phonics.”

This 127-character edict issued, as it turned out, from a young woman who is the “author of the forthcoming book ‘Brilliant: The Science of How We Get Smarter’ and a “journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better.”

It got under my skin, and not just because I personally had proven in the first grade that it is possible to be bad at phonics even if you already know how to read. It was her tone; that tone of sublime assurance on the point, which, further tweets revealed, is derived from “research” and “data” which demonstrate it to be true.

Many such “scientific” pronouncements have emanated from the educational establishment over the last hundred years or so. The fact that the proven truths of each generation are discovered by the next to be harmful folly never discourages the current crop of experts who are keen to impose their freshly-minted certainties on children. Their tone of cool authority carries a clear message to the rest of us: “We know how children learn. You don’t.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/08/19/what-the-modern-world-has-forgotten-about-children-and-learning/?postshare=4811471702914429&tid=ss_fb

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What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning

What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning

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