How Black activists in Northern Virginia transformed the way children learn to read By Sarah Carr December 27, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/27/phonics-reading-virginia-naacp/ ...In a virtual meeting that March with Fairfax’s school district leaders, Hampton says, she said t...

I don't yet know any details about this development, but the following message was tweeted on 14th December 2022. Slowly, slowly, people are getting the message that they've long since been 'sold a story' - the mantra introduced by US journalist Emily Hanford! https://twitter.com/dublin_parent/statu...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy?utm_campaign=falcon_e4bcaa8fba22b6feb7b8c2ec1e5388d1&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy...

November 2022:

A request viaTwitter for presentations for teachers featuring the Science of Reading has led to many free, accessible videos and free resources so I thought this was well worth sharing here:


https://twitter.com/LudwigMeg/status/15 ... 5720347648

Enjoy!

There has been huge political turmoil in the UK, and now at the time of posting this message, Rishi Sunak is the new Prime Minister replacing Liz Truss who was the PM only for a matter of weeks. Rishi Sunak has re-appointed Nick Gibb and Robert Halfon which is a very interesting development. It is d...

Read about the fantastic development in the US of parents fighting back in response to publishers' and academics' resistance to, and complaint of, Emily Hanford's 'Sold a Story' series. The link below is from the IFERI's 'Parent Forum': 21 November 2022 The Parent Response to "Opinion: A call f...

At the time of posting this parents' letter - with its growing number of signatories - journalist Emily Hanford's series ' Sold a Story ' is causing quite a stir in the United States. Bearing in mind that we have an international community, ripples of this development are travelling around the world...

Journalist, Emily Hanford, provides podcasts featuring the challenges faced in the USA to achieve research-informed instruction in all schools for all children: Sold a Story https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong There's an idea about how ...

Here is a later response by Greg Ashman: Motivated Reading and other peculiarities A coda to "Structured Word Inquiry fails a key test" https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/motivated-reading-and-other-peculiarities ...Structured Word Inquiry is profoundly weird. Its proponents repeatedly ...

Professor Pamela Snow writes a post via her excellent, research-informed blog, in response to edu-political developments in Victoria: Once more for the people at the back 8 Oct 2022 https://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2022/10/once-more-for-people-at-back.html It’s been a busy few weeks with respect to d...