<div dir="auto">Absolutely agree. This is why I homeschool and use Reading Mastery to teach children. All my girls have thrives with this reading program. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 2:05 PM <<a href="mailto:di-request@lists.uoregon.edu">di-request@lists.uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send di mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading Education<br>
(Dave Ziffer)<br>
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:26:06 -0500<br>
From: Dave Ziffer <<a href="mailto:daveziffer@projectpro.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">daveziffer@projectpro.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: di: Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading<br>
Education<br>
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*Dear List*: After eight (not four) decades of failure, I wouldn't get <br>
my hopes up.<br>
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I'm pretty sure that public school reading instruction is wholly <br>
operated by the curriculum publishers. They control the whole thing:<br>
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* the education departments where radical new ed philosophies are<br>
hatched and future teachers are taught what curricula to buy,<br>
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* and the school administrators who are promised post-retirement sales<br>
jobs<br>
<<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221201001858/https:/www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=15102" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20221201001858/https:/www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=15102</a>>,<br>
so long as they've been buying the "right" stuff.<br>
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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>
<<a href="http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml</a>><br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Cheers!<br>
<br>
Dave Ziffer<br>
Parent Veteran of the Reading Wars<br>
Former contributor to The Illinois Loop <<a href="https://www.illinoisloop.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.illinoisloop.org/</a>><br>
Currently advising parents to do it themselves at My Child Will Read <br>
<<a href="http://mychildwillread.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mychildwillread.org/</a>><br>
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On 9/21/2023 2:57 PM, Patricia Walsh-Coughlan wrote:<br>
> Thanks, Jerry for sharing this. It offers hope!<br>
> Tricia<br>
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> Sent from my iPhone<br>
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>> On Sep 21, 2023, at 12:00 PM, Jerry Silbert <<a href="mailto:jsilb24034@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jsilb24034@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> ?<br>
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>> Elite Universities Call for Change in Reading Education<br>
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>> Two world-class universities abandon four decades of flawed reading <br>
>> instruction.<br>
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