{"id":225,"date":"2002-07-31T22:47:52","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=225"},"modified":"2002-07-31T22:47:52","modified_gmt":"2002-07-31T22:47:52","slug":"in-the-blogosphere-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"In the blogosphere, the"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the blogosphere, the UK-based Samizdata<\/a> is pretty close to the top of the food chain. They (it’s a team effort) don’t often edu-blog but this one<\/a> could easily have been written by Joanne Jacobs or Isabel Lyman. In reference to a phonics-based reading program that had shown remarkable success, Natalie Solent wrote<\/p>\n

The libertarian morals to be drawn are (a) it’s taken thirty freaking years or more to overthrow the fraudulent orthodoxy that monolithic state education enthroned, and the job ain’t done yet; (b) that when you next hear statists moan on about how horrifically complicated, interconnected and hard to solve social problems are, mentally add the words “so long as you refuse to admit that you were wrong”; (c) watch the buggers in the educational establishment. Watch them with the eyes of a hawk. Sure, they are by now in their heart of hearts convinced that phonics is the system that works. But a little matter like the interests of actual children won’t override the fact that the last thing the Special Needs “community” want is sudden, clear improvement in children’s literacy. It would make them look bad. Worse, it would make them look unecessary. Expect them to obfuscate, distort and delay reform in every way imaginable. They’ll tell themselves that gradual change and a “mixed approach” are the best thing all round, which is true when the best thing is defined as covering their tails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the full post; it’s a beaut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the blogosphere, the UK-based Samizdata is pretty close to the top of the food chain. They (it’s a team effort) don’t often edu-blog but this one could easily have been written by Joanne Jacobs or Isabel Lyman. In reference to a phonics-based reading program that had shown remarkable success, Natalie Solent wrote The libertarian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}