I'm cross-referencing this thread with the 'General Forum' thread because the reading debate is not England-specific, it is an international debate in English-teaching contexts - and although this latest paper by Dominic Wyse and Alice Bradbury is written based on political-educational developments in England with regard to the teaching of reading, interestingly the first people to show their dismay/horror/disbelief via their blogs were Greg Ashman and Jennifer Buckingham from Australia!
Via the General Forum, I have entitled the thread:
The latest straw man - Wyse and Bradbury paper - and responses
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Do click on the link above. I have no doubt that responses will fly in thick and fast (a couple of days after the publication of the Wyse and Bradbury paper, they already are - including in various media outlets not just social networks and blogs).