<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Sorry Dave. As a long time charter school founder and administrator, I doubt that your radical, simplistic solution will ever help either. <div><br><div>
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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Charles Arthur</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Founder: Arthur Academy Charter School</span></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Early Child Literacy</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">The most effective reading</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">programs carefully</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">structure instruction around</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">mastery of small learning</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">increments that leads to</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">student proficiency of</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">advanced applications and</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">higher student self-esteem.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, di-request@lists.uoregon.edu wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Send di mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>di@lists.uoregon.edu<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/di<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>di-request@lists.uoregon.edu<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>di-owner@lists.uoregon.edu<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of di digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading Education<br> (Dave Ziffer)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:26:06 -0500<br>From: Dave Ziffer <daveziffer@projectpro.com><br>To: di@lists.uoregon.edu<br>Subject: Re: di: Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education<br>Message-ID: <b3b650ea-1bf1-002e-6205-e838539ad7fd@projectpro.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"<br><br>*Dear List*: After eight (not four) decades of failure, I wouldn't get <br>my hopes up.<br><br>I'm pretty sure that public school reading instruction is wholly <br>operated by the curriculum publishers. They control the whole thing:<br><br> * the education departments where radical new ed philosophies are<br> hatched and future teachers are taught what curricula to buy,<br><br> * and the school administrators who are promised post-retirement sales<br> jobs<br> <http://web.archive.org/web/20221201001858/https:/www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=15102>,<br> so long as they've been buying the "right" stuff.<br><br>You don't make money selling effective curricula that teachers and <br>parents love and keep for years. You get rich convincing administrators <br>that the crap you're selling this year will fix the problems caused by <br>the crap you sold them last year. For more on this process, read: The <br>Schools Are The Problem - My Child Will Read <br><http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml><br><br>Socialist systems are unreformable. They have captive audiences that <br>have already paid for the product or service via taxation, who must then <br>pay the whole price all over again if they want alternatives. There is <br>nothing to stop monopoly government providers (and their vendors) from <br>operating purely for their own narcissistic benefit, leaving them free <br>to fail their customers forever. Until our "public" schools are replaced <br>by competing vendors who must control their costs and please their <br>customers to survive, there is no reason to expect anything different.<br><br>The idea that the entire education industry has for decades been somehow <br>mistaken about what succeeds in the classroom is preposterous. All these <br>years we've been mindlessly following Lucy Calkins, who "/may not have <br>taken into account cognitive science research for decades/"? Really? How <br>much more idiotic can it get?<br><br>We've been fighting this fight ever since Rudolf Flesch wrote /Why <br>Johnny Can't Read/. There's a reason that nothing has changed.<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Dave Ziffer<br>Parent Veteran of the Reading Wars<br>Former contributor to The Illinois Loop <https://www.illinoisloop.org/><br>Currently advising parents to do it themselves at My Child Will Read <br><http://mychildwillread.org/><br><br><br>On 9/21/2023 2:57 PM, Patricia Walsh-Coughlan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks, Jerry for sharing this. It offers hope!<br>Tricia<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 21, 2023, at 12:00 PM, Jerry Silbert <jsilb24034@aol.com> wrote:<br><br>?<br><br>Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading Education<br><br>Two world-class universities abandon four decades of flawed reading <br>instruction.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>di mailing list<br>di@lists.uoregon.edu<br>https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/di<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>di mailing list<br>di@lists.uoregon.edu<br>https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/di<br></blockquote>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.uoregon.edu/pipermail/di/attachments/20230926/81031a6f/attachment-0001.html><br><br>End of di Digest, Vol 128, Issue 3<br>**********************************<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>