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The Cost of Teaching? Two toes? A finger? (Be a Hero. Teach a child to read, #3)

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Peter Watt

“The alphabet is an abolitionist.  If you would keep a people enslaved, refuse to teach them to read.” (Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 9, 1867, quoted from “Literacy as Freedom” in the Smithsonian) Nat Turner’s Rebellion and Laws against Reading Instruction In … Continue reading →

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Pakistan’s Economy of Child Labor- Problem: Illiteracy

Posted on December 4, 2018 by David Ryan

  A few years ago we learned how an American, Garth Weibe of Massachusetts, was making a difference for a  number of children toiling in the brick yards of Pakistan by using Alpha-Phonics to teach reading. The conditions he found … Continue reading →

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