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Sol Stern: Joel Klein's Figleaf
Joel Klein must give up his 100% support for the "balanced literacy" program that he wanted but the Federal government did not.
In public and private meetings, Klein repeatedly derided phonics as outmoded pedagogy that subjects children to boring and counter-productive "drill and kill" instruction. Yet even as Klein was defending the progressive-ed party line in end-of-the-year press interviews, his own Department of Education team was writing a grant proposal for a "drill and kill" program that might bring almost $40 million in No Child Left Behind money to the city.
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