di: di Digest, Vol 128, Issue 3

[Charles Arthur]

Sorry Dave.  As a long time charter school founder and administrator, I doubt that your radical, simplistic solution will ever help either. 

Charles Arthur
Founder: Arthur Academy Charter School
Early Child Literacy Consultant
arthurreadingworkshop.com 
971-544-7341
The most effective reading programs  carefully structure instruction around mastery of small learning increments that leads to student proficiency of advanced applications and higher student self-esteem.


> On Sep 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, di-request at lists.uoregon.edu wrote:
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>   1. Re:  Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading Education
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> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:26:06 -0500
> From: Dave Ziffer <daveziffer at projectpro.com>
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> Subject: Re: di: Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading
> 	Education
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> *Dear List*: After eight (not four) decades of failure, I wouldn't get 
> my hopes up.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that public school reading instruction is wholly 
> operated by the curriculum publishers. They control the whole thing:
> 
>  * the education departments where radical new ed philosophies are
>    hatched and future teachers are taught what curricula to buy,
> 
>  * and the school administrators who are promised post-retirement sales
>    jobs
>    <http://web.archive.org/web/20221201001858/https:/www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=15102>,
>    so long as they've been buying the "right" stuff.
> 
> You don't make money selling effective curricula that teachers and 
> parents love and keep for years. You get rich convincing administrators 
> that the crap you're selling this year will fix the problems caused by 
> the crap you sold them last year. For more on this process, read: The 
> Schools Are The Problem - My Child Will Read 
> <http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml>
> 
> Socialist systems are unreformable. They have captive audiences that 
> have already paid for the product or service via taxation, who must then 
> pay the whole price all over again if they want alternatives. There is 
> nothing to stop monopoly government providers (and their vendors) from 
> operating purely for their own narcissistic benefit, leaving them free 
> to fail their customers forever. Until our "public" schools are replaced 
> by competing vendors who must control their costs and please their 
> customers to survive, there is no reason to expect anything different.
> 
> The idea that the entire education industry has for decades been somehow 
> mistaken about what succeeds in the classroom is preposterous. All these 
> years we've been mindlessly following Lucy Calkins, who "/may not have 
> taken into account cognitive science research for decades/"? Really? How 
> much more idiotic can it get?
> 
> We've been fighting this fight ever since Rudolf Flesch wrote /Why 
> Johnny Can't Read/. There's a reason that nothing has changed.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Dave Ziffer
> Parent Veteran of the Reading Wars
> Former contributor to The Illinois Loop <https://www.illinoisloop.org/>
> Currently advising parents to do it themselves at My Child Will Read 
> <http://mychildwillread.org/>
> 
> 
> On 9/21/2023 2:57 PM, Patricia Walsh-Coughlan wrote:
>> Thanks, Jerry for sharing this. It offers hope!
>> Tricia
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Sep 21, 2023, at 12:00 PM, Jerry Silbert <jsilb24034 at aol.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading Education
>>> 
>>> Two world-class universities abandon four decades of flawed reading 
>>> instruction.
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