The Stanford Report on Reading Reform: Why Decades of Science Favour SOR Over Reading Recovery
This site has published a few articles criticising Malta’s Reading Recovery program. Do I have any agenda? Yes – ditching the programme to SOR, retraining
Marica is a truth and spiritual warrior, which has put her on a difficult path which is neither artificially blissful nor a pretence of fakedness. She is not afraid of losing popularity when she speaks Truth, which requires her not to beat around the bush. Instead, she embraces directness, an essential tool when the journey entails a search for truth in all its forms. Click here to read more >>
This site has published a few articles criticising Malta’s Reading Recovery program. Do I have any agenda? Yes – ditching the programme to SOR, retraining
Across the United States, states that abandoned Reading Recovery and cueing-based literacy programmes in favour of the Science of Reading (SOR) have documented remarkable improvements
This platform has recently repeatedly criticised Malta’s Reading Recovery program. My objective is clear: replace this program with the Science of Reading (SOR), retrain current
First things first, let us be clear: having formal credentials does not automatically guarantee strong performance. A person can hold a PhD and still lack
If you haven’t done so already, kindly read the series of five articles that precede this one. Ashkenaz, notably, was the region they inhabited during
Organized crime creates shadow systems known as parallel economies, which operate entirely outside the law and pose a major threat to society and government stability.
Following the incident on St Mark Street, Valletta—where three police officers were physically assaulted by a 32-year-old man while trying to make an arrest, leaving
In Malta, we have a programme which is officially known as Reading Recovery (Rimonta fil-Qari). It is administered by the National Literacy Agency in collaboration
David Muscat is the Chief Executive Officer of Malta’s National Literacy Agency, the body responsible for implementing Malta’s national literacy strategy and running programmes intended
Across the United States, states that abandoned Reading Recovery and cueing-based literacy programmes in favour of the Science of Reading (SOR) have documented remarkable improvements
Another day, another display of bureaucratic cluelessness and utter stupidity in Brussels: MEPs rubber-stamped yet another self-serving report from their so-called “defence of democracy” committee
In this piece I am reproducing another opinion piece that appeared in Haaretz in 2015. Following a violent attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
Before summer comes to a close, I want to dedicate one final piece to the subject of power cuts in Malta: those infuriating outages that,
For years, shifting to a digital lifestyle was advertised as the ultimate eco-friendly choice: print fewer pages, spare forests, and shrink your carbon footprint –
Nearly a month may have passed since the vote, but time does not erase the blatant hypocrisy that defines Malta’s political establishment. And no, do
The below is a book I read this summer. I highly recommend it. Going through the reviews yourself, you can see how anyone who bought
Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder and President of the Pan-European Union, the original EU, said this in his 1925 book, ‘Praktischer Idealismus’: “The man of
Renowned psychotherapist and bestselling author Katherine Woodward Thomas speaks about a powerful reality many people overlook: the relationship patterns we struggle with in adulthood often
One of the most painful consequences of modern life is how far we seem to have moved away from genuine community and intergenerational family care.
There was a time when courtship was not seen as a game but as the careful beginning of something meaningful. Today, modern dating often feels
Babies cry when they leave the womb—not because they are broken, but because they have entered a new dimension of life. Grief is much the
Staring at the extensive blue in front of me, I drop the pain I bear in my womb and veins And let it emanate, until
Oh here you are… I have been looking for you for a lifetime. Can I touch your face while we share a black-and-white conversation? Play
I knocked and waited at your doorYet it didn’t open.The wind howledI slept on fallen leaves.And I waitedin aeternum… I knocked and waited at your