[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Fwd: The real message

[Ken Goodman]

Freddie and david
At the the european reading conference this week the contributors to the
Hallof fame symposium I set up and others indicated that his problem exists
in virtually very country. Fijilkof from France Diononysio from Portugal,
Renste Valtin from Germany, all reproted impostion by governments explicit
phonics instruction in kindergarten. England has just instituted a Dibels
like test for the end of kindergarten The best knowledge in this matter is
being ignored and phony research is being cited to support government
impositions.

There was strong agreement that we need an international coalition to mount
 a challenge.

In my own presentation I exposed the absurdity of using EGRA(thinly
disguised dibels) in 42 third world countries to prove that kids can't read.
With much less expense any kid or teacher could have told them that. Now
they will teach to the test and claim the kids are becoming literate. UAAID
and the World Bank are behind this effort.


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Jan Turbill <jturbill at uow.edu.aua> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this. It is very opportune for the work I am doing in a
> school.
>
> Jan
>
>
> On 05/08/2011, at 3:51 PM, P. David Pearson wrote:
>
>   Freddy asked me to share this with the listserv on her behalf
>
>  David
>
> Reading Hall of Fame colleagues,
>
> I followed Yetta’s suggestion and read David Berliner’s blog on *Why
> giving standardized tests to really young children is dumb.  *David’s blog
> inspired me to finish a column entitled: *Is Reading in Kindergarten the
> Means for Ensuring College and Career Readiness?*  The url is:
> http://textproject.org/frankly-freddy/is-reading-in-kindergarten-the-means-for-ensuring-college-and-career-readiness/
>
>
> Some of you will recognize the ideas as ones I presented as part of the
> Reading Hall of Fame session at IRA in Orlando. This past decade,
> kindergarten reading (especially with decodables) has become an established
> part of schooling.  I don’t want the next decade’s legacy to be forcing
> preschoolers to look at decodables.
>
> If you have ideas of venues or groups with whom this piece might be shared,
> I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Freddy (Hiebert)
>
>  Here is the column:
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>  On Aug 4, 2011, at 3:06 PM, P. David Pearson wrote:
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> P. David Pearson
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> Language, Literacy & Culture
> Human Development
> Graduate School of Education
> 5645 Tolman Hall #1670
> University of California, Berkeley
> Berkeley CA 94720-1670
> Primary Phone: Cell:  510 543 6508
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