[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Jack Cassidy's Report

Gay Pinnell gaysu at pinnelleducation.com
Mon Feb 21 22:00:51 GMT 2011 

I think just about all literacy conferences have defined in attendance  
and memberships have also declined.

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On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:43 PM, "P. David Pearson"  
<ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Do we know if NCTE, NCTM and NSTA are down in membership and  
> conference attendance by similar percentages?  That would tell us  
> whether this is a general problem with the economy and school  
> district PD funds or something peculiar to the reading teacher  
> phenomenon, as Dick seems to be suggesting.
>
> I have NO data on this issue, but my sense is that NCTE and NSTA  
> have not been hit as hard--perhaps because they never had as much  
> external funding for their conferences (e.g., NCLB)???
>
> David
>
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Ken Goodman wrote:
>
>> My sense is that the basic problem is economic- school districts  
>> are less willing to pay for conference attendance and teachers are  
>> not willing spend money of their own.
>>
>>
>> But the major turnover of IRA staff has to have hurt too.
>> And you don't cut services without losing members.
>> ken Goodman
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/21/2011 10:15 AM, richardallington at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>> The real question about IRA has to do with membership. As I  
>>> understand it membership is down about 50% since my presidency  
>>> (from 90,000 to 60,000). As I departed the presidency IRA was  
>>> planning for 100,000 members and taking the annual meeting only  
>>> cities where conferences of 35,000+ could be accommodated (thus  
>>> the focus on Orlando and Chicago recently). But conference  
>>> attendance is also down about as much as membership (from over  
>>> 25,000 in my year as president to 12,500 last year). I'm not sure  
>>> how things turned around so quickly but IRA has adequate funds in  
>>> surplus to survive for awhile (praise the Lord). Still the  
>>> question that keeps me awake is what has driven IRA membership and  
>>> conference attendance to the pits? Is it that IRA has finally fell  
>>> victim to the special education complex? That struggling readers  
>>> are no longer seen as a problem for reading specialists to work  
>>> with but instead are now seen as LD and largely unremediable? IRA  
>>> lost its leadership in publishing on struggling readers to LDA and  
>>> CEC in the 1980s and now reading specialists are typically my age  
>>> and retiring from teaching.
>>>
>>> Dick Allington
>>> University of Tennessee
>>> A209 Bailey Education Complex
>>>
>>>
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