<div dir="ltr">Arkansas also has an approved list, Reading Mastery did not pass the criteria. <div>We had to give it up after years of effective teaching, confidence building, and good test scores.</div><div>I can tell you that the curriculum we chose was very expensive and will never match what we were able to accomplish with Reading Mastery.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:31 AM Carolyn Sharette <<a href="mailto:csharette@apamail.org">csharette@apamail.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Crazy happenings in Utah.<div>Senate Bill 127 passed requiring state-approved “science-based reading” programs in every school within 2 years.</div><div>We cheered! Finally others would join us in using effective reading curriculum! (We opened 20 years ago and Reading Mastery is our Core reading program)</div><div>Every district has to report what program it will use and gain approval to qualify under the law.</div><div>We sent in our plan to use Reading Mastery. </div><div>It was FLATLY DENIED. Too many “red flags”. Not science-based.</div><div><br></div><div>????????????</div><div><br></div><div>State reading results came out. 4 out of top 6 schools use some type of Reading Mastery (for Core or Corrective).</div><div><br></div><div>Still they refuse to “approve” it!!!!</div><div><br><div>
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<div><br><div>On Oct 6, 2023, at 11:55 AM, Kozloff, Martin <<a href="mailto:kozloffm@uncw.edu" target="_blank">kozloffm@uncw.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">In places where whole language has finally been dropped without comment from districts (which has happened around here), it is because of several events.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">>> The crisis. Jillions of articles at all levels report the crisis of moronitude in public schools. "Jeez, Louise, these kids can't read. What the heck!"</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">>> The challenge. Enough national-level articles (research and commentary) are published whose message is that "we finally know what effective instruction requires"---even if this has been known for decades.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">>> Unmasking the enemy. "Bombshell" reports go after those responsible, for their dopey ideas and their fortunes--- stupidity combined with avarice. "And the kids paid for this!" </div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">For ex, the Funky Goodmans (an editor of theirs said they were always surrounded by a noxious bouquet of stench---they hadn't heard of Whole Deodorant.) and Lucy C.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">>> The Fear. Administrators start to think that they'd better change things or the public may come for them with hot pitch, feathers, and wooden rails.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">>> Publishers advertise that "We are not those guys. Our materials are consistent with what we know works."</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">>> The Answer. Administators (having no idea what well-designed instruction looks like) buy the materials that are best advertised. Some such materials seem to work well enough. </div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">What happens when they pick the wrong materials, as they thrash around for a solution? That's when a higher power (state legislature, parents suing under the 14 amendment equal protection clause) has to respond swifty, before ineffective programs become "Our way." "No, you need to try again, or you'll get sued in federal court."</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Just my thoughts. As always, correct, and delivered with humility and a side order of schmaltz.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Kozloff out</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Check the manuscript if you feel like it. 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