Awww! My partner wasn’t familiar with kitties before we met. She still points out when they turn their heads upside down like this as if I don’t know that it happens every day. This is almost three years in.
I'm not sure where I'd heard of this (likely a podcast), but I recognized it before I looked it up and found the wikipedia entry. Thanks for the reminder.
Schwinn’s biggest claim to fame was an all-hands-on-deck initiative designed to shift reading instruction from the terrible 3-cueing system that teaches kids to guess words, to one that is science-based.
I listened to the Educate podcast from APM Reports. They did tons of stories on learning to read, the bad teaching, the good teaching, it was heartbreaking because of shit like this. The cueing system didn't teach kids to sound out words. It taught them to guess at words based on context. The specific example they gave was that the illustration and the words around the one you didn't know might make you guess "horse" when really it was "donkey."
I'm an avid reader and fan of education. This lady sounds like she knows her stuff. I'm pretty shocked, given all the other appointments. I'm full of dread about what might come next, but tepidly appreciate her appointment.
Like the inner ear itch that gets scratched on the roof of the mouth. That makes perfect sense to me. Cheers.