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scores falling through the floor."
He said California teachers are being retrained "but the education establishment as a whole is in denial that anything is wrong and there is resistance to retraining."
He said the trend away from phonics began in 1914 with the adoption of the Dick and Jane reading books. '
Mr. Sweet said 50 percent of the American adult population "has serious reading problems, and in California 60 percent of fourth graders were reading "below the basic level."
School Superintendent David Gangel said Rappahannock schools had never dropped phonics, but two Rappahannock graduates at the meeting said they had never learned phonics in county schools.
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