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For decades, American schools abandoned systematic phonics in favor of “Balanced Literacy,” teaching children to guess words from context rather than learn how to read, a shift that has left roughly 40% of fourth graders unable to read at a basic level despite clear evidence from cognitive science and real-world successes like the “Mississippi Miracle” that phonics works.
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For decades, American schools abandoned systematic phonics in favor of “Balanced Literacy,” teaching children to guess words from context rather than learn how to read, a shift that has left roughly 40% of fourth graders unable to read at a basic level despite clear evidence from cognitive science and real-world successes like the “Mississippi Miracle” that phonics works.

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