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🚨A new front has opened up in the push to privatize #schools.🚨
At Fox News Jeb Bush explicitly cited #soldastory as a reason we need #AZEd #schoolvouchers. @edvoters @BadassTeachersA @Network4pubEd @PV4PS 👇
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foxnews.com/opinion/our-ch…
At Fox News Jeb Bush explicitly cited #soldastory as a reason we need #AZEd #schoolvouchers. @edvoters @BadassTeachersA @Network4pubEd @PV4PS 👇
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foxnews.com/opinion/our-ch…
#Reading is going to be the new wedge issue to pitch #schoolvouchers /ESAs to parents understandably frustrated at #scienceofreading issues but who were turned off by the voucher culture war pitch.
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Just days before writing this Fox column and citing #reading as a reason states need #azed style #schoolvouchers Bush was honoring voucher hero @DougDucey at the annual ExcelInEd meeting
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Small Group Reading: a 🧵 I’ve done leveled guided reading, skills groups and now I don’t do either. Regardless of group type most only widen the gap for Ss. Teachers are trying to differentiate to death. Start with tier 1 for all. 1/8 #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading
I have 1 hour for foundational reading for ALL which includes PA, encoding, decoding, fluency, HFW, & connected text. I can scaffold needs for Ss above and below level as needed. Nobody is bored, nobody is being hurt by this instruction. 2/8
I see 1 group each day for Ss below level based on screening, monitoring, & diagnostic data. Last yr I started with 2 tier 2 groups. One group caught up & was able to move out of intervention quick. By EOY all Ss but 1 met grade level benchmarks. All students exceeded growth. 3/8
This week’s #DirtyDisinfoTrick:
“Do Your Own Research”
Have you ever been in a heated keyboard battle and someone tells you to do your own research?
Well here’s the thing it’s super hard to conduct #research properly. And bad guys know that.
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“Do Your Own Research”
Have you ever been in a heated keyboard battle and someone tells you to do your own research?
Well here’s the thing it’s super hard to conduct #research properly. And bad guys know that.
#Thread
#GoogleIsNotReasearch
We sometimes forget #google while awesome is a search engine not a fact checker. You can find an article supporting almost anything just a few keystrokes away.
We sometimes forget #google while awesome is a search engine not a fact checker. You can find an article supporting almost anything just a few keystrokes away.
#Academics are guilty of using jargon and hard to understand language. That’s because they are really writing these papers for other people in their field.
It’s hard to just pick up a scientific journal or google a study and know what they are saying.
#scienceofreading
It’s hard to just pick up a scientific journal or google a study and know what they are saying.
#scienceofreading
Today we were asked why we are so angry & our posts are vitriolic. It was suggested that the vitriol & nastiness in the posts and comments are disappointing from our group, that bashing other programs in the manner that we have engaged in is beneath an organization such as DI.
As I stated to the individual who requested an honest response from us regarding her concerns, I am sharing our response here.
First, however, know this. For the past 24 hours I have received more messages than I can count from numerous advocates and concerned parents sharing what F&P was posting and asking us to respond.
1/8 More pushback from experts against the "#ScienceOfReading" propaganda campaign. From a Literacy Research Assn. report: "The idea that there is a 'settled science' that has determined the only approach to the teaching of reading is simply wrong": is.gd/XpHvYZ...
2/8 ..."Evidence does not justify the use of a heavy & near-exclusive focus on phonics instructn, either in regular classrms, or for [kids having trouble] learning to read."
Likewise, "neither the nature nor the existence of dyslexia is settled science": is.gd/eWFWht
Likewise, "neither the nature nor the existence of dyslexia is settled science": is.gd/eWFWht
3/8 Add that report to last year's thorough examination of multiple metaanalyses in Ed Psych Revw, which found "little or no evidence that [systematic phonics] is more effective than many of the most common alternative methods...including whole language": is.gd/Q2DHo1
New study out🚨
“The most widely used [PA programs] have areas of inconsistency w/the #scienceofreading... Materials reviewed here did not take orthographic development into sufficient account.. did not use letters & did not limit focus to 1 or 2 skills.”
doi.org/10.1002/rrq.386
“The most widely used [PA programs] have areas of inconsistency w/the #scienceofreading... Materials reviewed here did not take orthographic development into sufficient account.. did not use letters & did not limit focus to 1 or 2 skills.”
doi.org/10.1002/rrq.386
Thanks to Dr. Neena Saha for sharing on this week’s Reading Research Recap: readingresearchrecap.substack.com/p/april-16th-i…
Some highlights below from ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rr…
1/ "Why would commercial programs abstain from using letters in PA instruction? We wonder if developers of commercial materials inadvertently may have conflated assessment and instruction..."
1/ "Why would commercial programs abstain from using letters in PA instruction? We wonder if developers of commercial materials inadvertently may have conflated assessment and instruction..."
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An interesting (& common) question from a teacher on our Reading for Life Course:
"When teaching grade 3 and have a student arrive in your class at the start of the year wearing coloured lenses, and they have been wearing them for at least a period of 6-12 months,
An interesting (& common) question from a teacher on our Reading for Life Course:
"When teaching grade 3 and have a student arrive in your class at the start of the year wearing coloured lenses, and they have been wearing them for at least a period of 6-12 months,
I wonder how to tackle this with the parents because they have obviously sought help and this has been provided to them as the solution by 'the experts'.
By the time a student reaches grade 3 and they're behind in reading, writing and spelling, how far behind do they need to be to be considered dyslexic? Or are they just slower to make progress?"
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Reconsider the tone policing and respectability politics of #dyslexia #scienceofreading responses to Richard Allington's talk blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teach… @educationweek
Reconsider the tone policing and respectability politics of #dyslexia #scienceofreading responses to Richard Allington's talk blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teach… @educationweek
@educationweek The first responses to Allington I saw were on Twitter by #dyslexia advocates. They repeatedly misrepresented his comments to be far more extreme than they were even though the thread had the audio to refer to. Leading a criticism with misrepresentation hurts your credibility +
@educationweek This misrepresentation was posted by the same person at least twice \/
Response from *Lucy Calkins* to the #scienceofreading
"I’ve been asked to write a response to the phonics-centric people who are calling themselves “the science of reading.” I want to point out that no one interest group gets to own science. #ELAChat
drive.google.com/file/d/16Ewx2f…
"I’ve been asked to write a response to the phonics-centric people who are calling themselves “the science of reading.” I want to point out that no one interest group gets to own science. #ELAChat
drive.google.com/file/d/16Ewx2f…
2/ Lucy Calkins goes on to discuss how important teaching systematic phonics is, that is is settled science, and how using predictable texts in K are like using training wheels to ride a bike. There are many points in which she aligns with science.
3/ Calkins then addresses that using predictable texts w/students with dyslexia would be *harmful* to them--that they need decodable texts to learn to read.
