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The Reading Wars in Retrospect: Uncovering the Ideologies that Changed American Schools (A Series)
"Bellamy's communism rests on an ethical base rather than upon a view that is sometimes called 'scientific' because of its abstraction from considerations of human well-being."
John Dewey, 1934 — Common Sense Magazine
Announcing Alpha-Phonics PLUS: Keeping Pace with the Science of Reading
Alpha-Phonics has been upgraded with a new 2025 PLUS Edition. The PLUS Supplement includes Phonemic Awareness Exercises, including Alphabet Sound Charts, an introduction to decoding with extra decoding exercises and drills, plus extra word lists for extra-conscientious teachers. We now have both a Teacher’s Copy, with Samuel Blumenfeld’s Original Phonics Lessons and Instructions, and a Student Copy which contains the Original Lessons along with the PLUS Supplement, added by Meg Rayborn Dawson, author of Dyslexic No More: Saved by the ABC’s. (The same home-school edition (1983) is still available on Amazon as well.
