The triumph of look-say: dumbing-down reading instruction.(Let's Kill Dick & Jane: How the Open Court Publishing Company Fought the Culture of American Education)(Book review) From: Education Next | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Ravitch, Diane | COPYRIGHT 2007 Hoover Institution Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Let's Kill Dick & Jane: How the Open Court Publishing Company Fought the Culture of American Education

By Harold Henderson

St. Augustine's Press, 2006, $26.00; 168 pages.

This book tells the story of Blouke Carus's heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to reform American education. Carus founded the Open Court Publishing Company in 1962 with two aims that did not seem to be at all contradictory: first, to teach children to read, and second, to...

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