And what fraction manage to post essentially the same comment twice ? Critics of "Balanced literacy" sound like they have similar complaints to those for "Inte

And what fraction manage to post essentially the same comment twice ? Critics of "Balanced literacy" sound like they have similar complaints to those for "Intelligent design". They believe Balanced Literacy isn't really a new thing, but an old discredited idea ("Whole language" literacy education) given a re-branding to escape criticism, just as "Intelligent design" is Creationism again. And "Whole Language" is exactly what I discussed above, a belief that "learning to read English comes naturally to humans, especially young children, in the same way that learning to speak develops naturally". A laughably false idea.