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From the Academy

by Russell Kirk

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Parents beyond number complain to me that their children aren’t learning to read properly in school—and those parents are right. Although it has been nearly a quarter of a century since Rudolf Flesch’s Why Johnny Can’t Read was written, and although several other good books on reading have had considerable circulation, still the majority of American children are not taught reading by the phonetic method.

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