> Please, read the current research. There's no need. How to teach reading has been a solved problem for at a minimum 30 years. It is not a research question.

> Please, read the current research. There's no need. How to teach reading has been a solved problem for at a minimum 30 years. It is not a research question. It does include phonics. The only thing with researching is why in the world apparently intelligent, socially conscious people are still litigating the losing side of a lost war after all this time. And finally, John Taylor gatto from whom you presumably derive your distaste for the Prussian method, had the following to say: > That was due to the Dewey revolt in the twenties, in which they threw out phonics reading and went to a word recognition as if you're reading a Chinese pictograph instead of blending sounds or different letters. I think killing phonics was one of the greatest causes of illiteracy in the country.