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 | | In other words, the schools have snuck back the phonic teaching of reading into early reading programmes, without properly acknowledging that the catastrophic removal of this basic tool of word and language recognition, replaced by second-rate, whole language theorising, formerly deprived so many young New Zealanders of even basic reading skills. |
 | | After Mrs Ferry's appearance on television, academics, who had lain very low on this issue, had an inexplicable surge of courage, and came out of their university cupboards to say that they, too, had always believed in phonic teaching. |
 | | Moreover, television's presenting of too many mediocre interviewers who lack historical knowledge - and the ability to fairly analyse issues (only too obviously missing in some of its Left-liberal presenters) - serves as an exclusionary process, denying more talented individuals the right to compete in these areas, and to help raise standards. |
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