LTE, Guardian (UK): "No evidence to back idea of learning styles"

[Igel]

1. Not the first such statement.

But educators need to save their kids. They seek miracles to be messiahs. This is one such thing.

At an earlier age teaching phonemic awareness is another scheme that's earnestly believed. A good lot review by a good scholar debunked hundreds of articles showing the wonders of teaching phonemic awareness. Bad methodologies or outright manipulation of data or definitions. In the end, of hundreds of articles, two were trustworthy. One showed a slight positive effect, the other a negative effect. No ed publication would touch it, it was too damning of too many ed folk. Phonemic awareness is emergent; at a certain level of fluency and vocabulary, the average human starts to develop it.

It's hard to get through to people relying on crucial yet disproven ideas that continued building on a crumbled foundation works. But they keep on keeping on for the echo chamber.