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[Elhp E]

Absolutely agree.  This is why I homeschool and use Reading Mastery to
teach children.  All my girls have thrives with this reading program.



On Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 2:05 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
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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
> >
> >> 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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