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<p><b>Dear List</b>: After eight (not four) decades of failure, I
wouldn't get my hopes up.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that public school reading instruction is wholly
operated by the curriculum publishers. They control the whole
thing:</p>
<ul>
<li>the education departments where radical new ed philosophies
are hatched and future teachers are taught what curricula to
buy,<br>
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</li>
<li>and the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221201001858/https:/www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=15102">school
administrators who are promised post-retirement sales jobs</a>,
so long as they've been buying the "right" stuff.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>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: <a
href="http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml">The Schools
Are The Problem - My Child Will Read</a></p>
<p>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.<br>
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<p>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 "<i>may not have taken into account cognitive science
research for decades</i>"? Really? How much more idiotic can it
get?<br>
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<p>We've been fighting this fight ever since Rudolf Flesch wrote <i>Why
Johnny Can't Read</i>. There's a reason that nothing has
changed.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>Dave Ziffer<br>
Parent Veteran of the Reading Wars<br>
Former contributor to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.illinoisloop.org/">The Illinois Loop</a><br>
Currently advising parents to do it themselves at <a
href="http://mychildwillread.org/">My Child Will Read</a></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/21/2023 2:57 PM, Patricia
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Thanks, Jerry for sharing this. It offers hope!
<div>Tricia <br>
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