Parents who want to avoid Reading Problems with their children and adults who never read for pleasure because they are Victims of Dick and Jane should listen to Hal Shurtleff’s Latest Podcast:
Sam Blumenfeld is interviewed by Bill McNally on “We Hold These Truths Show” which aired on WSMN AM Nashua, NH January of 2015. Mr. McNally, founder of the Samuel L. Blumenfeld Literacy Foundation, guest hosts and interviews Sam Blumenfeld, reading expert and homeschool pioneer. Sam passed away in June of 2015 but his work is available on the Blumenfeld Archives The Blumenfeld Archive (campconstitution.net)
Samuel L. Blumenfeld, aka, ‘The Godfather of Homeschooling,’ explains how Intensive Alpha-Phonics was taken out of the public schools and replaced with the ‘Whole-Word’ or ‘Look-Say’ method, which has caused the Decline in Reading in America.
In November 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts issued its devastating survey, Reading at Risk, in which it reported that almost half of Americans between ages 15 and 24 never read books for pleasure.
