[Reading-hall-of-fame] [Fwd: Bush's $6B Reading Program Failed]

[Ken Goodman]

You betcha.
Ken Goodman

GERALD BRACEY wrote:

> There was no progressive curriculum.  Each school was allowed to teach 
> however it felt most appropriate.  The only thing in common was that 
> school administrators belonged to the PEA (a majority of the schools 
> were private) and that colleges had agreed to waive the usual entrance 
> requirements.  I don't think the differences were negligible, 
> especially concerning social involvement.  I don't know if anyone 
> analyzed data for individual schools, but I know there was great 
> diversity in their approaches.  Some might have worked much better 
> than others.
>  
> As for reading, I imagine a program from Ken would be quite different 
> than one from Engelmann.
>  
> Jerry Bracey
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: David Olson <mailto:dolson at oise.utoronto.ca>
>     To: Ken Goodman <mailto:Kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>
>     Cc: Celt list, The <mailto:celt-l at coe.missouri.edu> ;
>     LiteracyForAll <mailto:LiteracyForAll at yahoogroups.com> ; NRCEMAIL
>     <mailto:NRCEMAIL at ASU.EDU> ; Susan Ohanian
>     <mailto:susano at gmavt.net> ; Bridges, Lois
>     <mailto:loisbridges at earthlink.net> ; gbracey1 at verizon.net
>     <mailto:gbracey1 at verizon.net> ; Alan Farstrup
>     <mailto:AFarstrup at reading.org> ; Reading Hall of Fame
>     <mailto:reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk>
>     Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 3:15 PM
>     Subject: Re: [Reading-hall-of-fame] [Fwd: Bush's $6B Reading
>     Program Failed]
>
>     Before we propose major funding of a long-term, large-scale
>     comparison of reading programs to supercede the Bush program, we
>     should remember (as should those who proposed the Bush-sponsored
>     program) the famous Eight-Year Study conducted in the 1930s by
>     Ralph Tyler and much discussed by historians such as Cremin and
>     Lagemann.  Thirty public and private alternative high schools
>     implemented a progressivist curriculum over an 8 year period that
>     integrated subject areas and encouraged the arts as well as
>     community involvement.  The performance of graduates of these
>     programs at college entry was then compared to that of matched
>     samples of students graduating from regular schools.  Differences
>     were negligible.  I doubt anything interesting would come from
>      comparing reading programs, which in my view, are all  remarkable
>     similar  They are all fine if carried out with decent resources
>     and competent teachers.  Research needs to be direct elsewhere.
>      David 
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/private/reading-hall-of-fame/attachments/20080607/2e04e412/attachment.html