Reading and Normality

Despite some improvement in recent years, three-fourths of the schools in this country still employ the quasi-imbecile “look-say” method of instruction in reading! But the friends of literacy are aroused and intelligently active.

Meeting in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the Reading Reform Foundation held its fourth annual conference, early in August. This non-profit organization has Mr. Watson Washburn as its president and Mrs. Raymond Rubicam as vice-president; its headquarters are at 36 West 44th Street, New York 36. Fourteen textbook publishers held displays in connection with the conference: clearly, the advocates of “phonics,” as opposed to “look-say,” must now be taken most seriously.

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Despite some improvement in recent years, three-fourths of the schools in this country still employ the quasi-imbecile “look-say” method of instruction in reading! But the friends of literacy are aroused and intelligently active.

Meeting in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the Reading Reform Foundation held its fourth annual conference, early in August. This non-profit organization has Mr. Watson Washburn as its president and Mrs. Raymond Rubicam as vice-president; its headquarters are at 36 West 44th Street, New York 36. Fourteen textbook publishers held displays in connection with the conference: clearly, the advocates of “phonics,” as opposed to “look-say,” must now be taken most seriously.