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- ISBN 10: 1641601639
- ISBN 13: 9781641601634
- Author: Marcia Biederman
The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. “The most famous reading teacher in the world,” as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included cooperation with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked by Sputnik and panicked by paperwork eagerly embraced her promises of a speed-reading revolution. Journalists, lawmakers and two US presidents lent credibility to Wood’s claims of turbocharging reading speeds through a method once compared to the miracle at Lourdes. A royal-born Wood grad said she’d polished off Moby Dick in three hours; a senator swore he finished one book per lunchtime. Fudging test results, and squelching critics, Wood founded a company that enrolled half a million. The course’s popularity endured even as science proved that her system taught only skimming, with disastrous effects on comprehension. As apps and online courses attempt to spark a speed-reading revival, this engaging look at Wood’s rise from missionary to marketer exposes the pitfalls of wishful thinking.
Table of contents:
1.Charm School
2. Third-Reich Interlude
3. Habits of Highly Effective Readers
4. We Have Liftoff
5. The Kid Farm
6. Bunk and Debunkers
7. Civil War
8. Consulting the Oracle
9. Times Are A-Changin’
10. Snake in the Grass
11. White Knight
12. Rehab
13. Carved in Stone
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