Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweeping condemnation, Flesch had accused the schools of an almost total failure to teach children to read because they had abandoned phonics (the letter-by-letter, syllable-by-syllable method) in favor of sight recognition (recognizing whole words by their appearance). "Do you know," wrote Flesch, "that the teaching of reading never was a problem anywhere in the world until the United States switched to the present method around about 1925?" Bald and exaggerated as his statements were, Flesch had in a sense done the nation a favor. He had brought the extremists out into the open...
Bowl to Pot. Though it may vary somewhat from city to city, the method now used in most schools is a combination of systems. The educators admit that word recognitlon has its dangers. It is quite possible, as one Louisville mother reported of her son, for a third grader to type out b-o-w-l and call it pot, or for a pupil to develop the annoying habit of putting the President in the White Horse or assembling stamp collisions. But phonics alone can be equally disastrous. Though a pupil might be able to read the word institute right...
...turn of the century, communities had to cope with exactly the same types of youth crimes as we have today, and proportionately as often. And that was ... in a day of no mechanization, no easy communications and transportation, no radio, no television, no movies, no comics, no sight method of teaching reading, no world wars...
...thousand volunteers, Britain's health authorities made up their minds last week. They canceled the whole thing as too dangerous. Said Dr. Graham Selby Wilson, director of the Public Health Laboratory Service: "I do not see how any vaccine prepared by [Dr. Jonas] Salk's method can be guaranteed to be safe...
There are other ways of putting up a satellite, Stehling admits, but most of them would require very large, elaborate and expensive rocketry. He believes that the balloon method of outwitting atmospheric resistance is the most practical way for man to take his first step toward space flight...