By Louisa Cook Moats – 10/1/2000
Dr. Moats reveals that what’s going on in many classrooms in the name of “balance” or “consensus” is that the worst practices of whole language reading instruction persist, continuing to inflict boundless harm on young children who need to learn to read. How and why that is happening—and how and why such practices are misguided and harmful—are the subject of this report.