Education: Nue alfabet

log agoer thaer livd a bliend man. hee livd whaer trees and flouers groo but the bliend man cood not see the trees or flouers.

This is not yclept Olde English but New English—the latest British prop for tots just learning to read. Britain is worried that 30% of its seven-year-olds still cannot read after two years of school; one-quarter of its 15-year-olds are semiliterate; and 5% cannot read at all. On the theory that one facet of the problem is the exception-ridden English alphabet, 1,000 first-graders in 24 schools next fall will tackle...

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