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- Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:48 pm
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: Eng: Various appointed Secretaries of State for Education from July 5 2022
- Replies: 3
- Views: 29793
Re: Eng: Various appointed Secretaries of State for Education from July 5 2022
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...
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:12 am
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: USA: Reviews Give Failing Marks to 2 Reading Programs - Fountas & Pinnell's, & Lucy Calkins' + Emily Hanford's reporting
- Replies: 7
- Views: 41051
Re: USA: Reviews Give Failing Marks to 2 Reading Programs - Fountas & Pinnell's, & Lucy Calkins' + Emily Hanford's repor
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...
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:04 am
- Forum: Parent Forum
- Topic: US: Parents fight back - open letter 'response to opinion' of objections to Emily Hanford's 'Sold a Story' series
- Replies: 0
- Views: 59158
US: Parents fight back - open letter 'response to opinion' of objections to Emily Hanford's 'Sold a Story' series
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...
- Tue Nov 01, 2022 3:05 pm
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: USA: Reviews Give Failing Marks to 2 Reading Programs - Fountas & Pinnell's, & Lucy Calkins' + Emily Hanford's reporting
- Replies: 7
- Views: 41051
Re: USA: Reviews Give Failing Marks to Two Popular Reading Programs - Fountas & Pinnell's, and Lucy Calkins'
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 ...
- Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:47 pm
- Forum: Research and Recommended Reading
- Topic: Responses to Bowers' claim that SSP is not well-evidenced by Jennifer Buckingham + others
- Replies: 5
- Views: 52801
Re: Responses to Bowers' claim that SSP is not well-evidenced by Jennifer Buckingham + others
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 ...
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 11:35 am
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'
- Replies: 1
- Views: 23889
Re: Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'
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...
- Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:52 pm
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'
- Replies: 1
- Views: 23889
Victoria, Aus: 'Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read'
Liberals $220m phonics focus aims to ‘end guesswork’ in learning to read Annika Smethurst and Adam Carey October 4, 2022 https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liberals-220m-phonics-focus-aims-to-end-guesswork-in-learning-to-read-20221003-p5bmok.html?fbclid=IwAR0CteW0wZF-70SsmE1Yu_AiTCWw0CpZf8...
- Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally
- Replies: 34
- Views: 559423
Re: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally
This article by Dr Sarah McGeown references the status quo in Scotland - and also that the lack of research-informed reading instruction is still an international issue: We have taken systematic synthetic phonics on as a universal way to teach children to decode, all within the big five areas of tea...
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally
- Replies: 34
- Views: 559423
Re: This is a MUST WATCH video of IFERI committee members giving evidence in Scotland - but relevant internationally
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/general/embracing-hard-questions-over-reading-approaches-and-phonics This article in the TES by Henry Hepburn references Anne Glennie's petition. Anne is reaching a wider audience in Scotland - and must be commended for her continued efforts to inform teachers i...
- Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:15 am
- Forum: Around the World: News and Events
- Topic: USA: 'Tennessee trains thousands of secondary teachers in reading science'
- Replies: 0
- Views: 57431
USA: 'Tennessee trains thousands of secondary teachers in reading science'
Fantastic news from Tennessee described in this piece by Barbara Davidson via the Thomas Fordham Institute site! I have long since advocated that ALL teachers should be training in the reading science - not just early years and infant teachers! I constantly point out the teaching reading and spellin...