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Related to your 4th footnote, I can say that when training to be a teacher (2015-2019) here in the U.S., I was also fed an "undiluted diet" of progressive ideas. Any sort of traditional views on teaching were derided by my professors as antithetical to "best practices." Direct instruction was described as malpractice. In a course specifically covering reading instruction, we were taught all about whole language and three-cueing, and phonics was labelled as a long-debunked approach to teaching reading. I could go on and on with examples, but this kind of progressive worldview is still pushed on teachers in college.

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