North America: 'Early Reading Instruction: Why has Reading Recovery Survived?'

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North America: 'Early Reading Instruction: Why has Reading Recovery Survived?'

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Why indeed?

https://educhatter.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... -survived/
The RR program was seized by Education Departments and boards as the latest panacea. By 2000, RR had spread to 10,000 American Grade 1 classrooms and had made inroads in Ontario as well as Nova Scotia. Over a 15 year period, Nova Scotia poured millions into RR, training some 600 teachers and running 33,000 kids through the 12-week, intensive, one-on-one program.

Thousands of parents in the 1990s were “hooked on phonics,” but school boards found their salvation in Reading Recovery. “These days,” Ramesh Ponnaru wrote in the OQE Newsletter (March 2000), ” it’s rare to find a school that does not claim to teach phonics, but whole language programs like Reading Recovery remain prevalent.” Simply stated, RR filled the need for a “balanced” program where phonics was “embedded in the context of a total reading/language program.”
Although this piece dates back to 2011, what has changed regarding wide-scale promotion of Reading Recovery?
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