Radio interview with Prof James Chapman: Is Reading Recovery working?

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Radio interview with Prof James Chapman: Is Reading Recovery working?

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This half hour 'Life Matters' radio interview with Professor James Chapman is in response to the professional critiques of Reading Recovery's results in various contexts over many years including those of IFERI's committee members, Prof Kevin Wheldall, Prof James Chapman and Prof Bill Tunmer:

https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pg ... ?play=true
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Literacy experts are calling for a remedial reading program to be dropped claiming that it ineffective, expensive and doesn't sustain in the long-term.
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Here is IFERI's blog posting featuring the paper on Reading Recovery by Professors James Chapman and William Tunmer:

http://www.iferi.org/a-new-paper-by-pro ... -recovery/
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Re: Radio interview with Prof James Chapman: Is Reading Recovery working?

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I'm linking this thread to another thread on this topic:
NSW: Prof Kevin Wheldall writes an open letter to Education Minister Adrian Piccolo about Reading Recovery
http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=3&t=533
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