Packet 8: Bonus 8
After the premier of Sold a Story, the publisher Heineman was sued for promoting this approach, which includes “three-cueing.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this discredited approach to reading instruction, founded on Ken Goodman’s belief that literacy is as innate as first-language acquisition. This approach emphasizes engagement over phonics instruction.
ANSWER: whole language approach [accept balanced literacy; prompt on Reading Recovery; prompt on searchlight model or MSV model; reject “structured literacy”]
[10m] A critic of the whole language approach, Keith Stanovich, argued that learning to read exhibits the “Matthew effect” popularized by Harriet Zuckerman and this sociologist. This sociologist argued for “middle-range” theories.
ANSWER: Robert Merton [or Robert King Merton; accept Meyer Robert Schkolnick; reject “Robert C. Merton” or “Robert Cox Merton”]
[10e] A defense of public schools by another whole language critic, Diane Ravitch, pays homage to Jane Jacobs’s attack on Robert Moses’s planning of these places in a book titled for The Death and Life of Great American ones.
ANSWER: cities [or the city; or urban centers; accept urban planning; accept The Death and Life of Great American Cities] (Ravitch’s polemic is The Death and Life of Great American Public Schools.)
<Editors, Social Science> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 14.00 | 100% | 35% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Cambridge | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brown | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago A | WashU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Chicago B | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Stanford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| MIT | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Michigan | Bruin | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Swarthmore | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia Tech | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 20 | 14.00 | 100% | 35% | 5% |