Word: chall
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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Harvard Education Professor Jeanne Chall told participants at the conference, "The right teaching is the most important thing. All the children could make it if we gave them more of the attention they need." Chall's book, Learning to Read: The Great Debate, fueled a phonics controversy in 1965, and a revised edition, due out next spring, presents new research supporting the phonics method of teaching reading to all children. But despite the evidence, many schools continue to teach the so-called look-say method, which depends upon visual recognition and memorization. While the look-say method works...