[Reading-hall-of-fame] Fwd: Reading Association Creates Literacy Research Panel

[Brian Cambourne]

Dear RHF colleagues,
Herewith   a response to my email to the IRA Board from the IRA President.
Brian Cambourne

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From: "Risko, Victoria J" <victoria.j.risko at Vanderbilt.Edu<mailto:victoria.j.risko at Vanderbilt.Edu>>
Date: 5 February 2012 12:30:17 AM AEDT
To: Brian Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au<mailto:bcambrn at uow.edu.au>>
Cc: "mullen at reading.org<mailto:mullen at reading.org>" <mullen at reading.org<mailto:mullen at reading.org>>, "P. David Pearson" <ppearson at BERKELEY.EDU<mailto:ppearson at BERKELEY.EDU>>, "vgoatley at reading.org<mailto:vgoatley at reading.org>" <vgoatley at reading.org<mailto:vgoatley at reading.org>>
Subject: Re: Reading Association Creates Literacy Research Panel

Brian, thank you for expressing your concerns. We are very much in agreement with you and David is in the process of appointing international members. The Board was not involved in establishing the initial charges for the panel. But I understand that Mark Mullen initiated the panel to address U.S. policy and curricular issues that are undermining U.S. schools.

At our recent meeting of the panel, we quickly realized that these issues, such as the use of single tests to determine learning, narrow curricula plans, teacher education, and teaching new immigrants,are universal and that our discussions would benefit greatly from our global colleagues outside the U.S.

I very much look forward to David's appointment of our international colleagues.

Vicki
2011-2012 IRA President

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On Feb 3, 2012, at 5:50 PM, "Brian Cambourne" <bcambrn at uow.edu.au<mailto:bcambrn at uow.edu.au>> wrote:

Dear IRA Executive  and others,
According to Education Week the following IRA members have been appointed to a ' Literacy Research Panel' which has the role of 'respond(ing) to critical issues in literacy by translating research into practical recommendations':
•Peter Afflerbach, University of Maryland
• Nell Duke, Michigan State University
• Virginia Goatley, University of Albany (and IRA Research Director)
• John Guthrie, University of Maryland
• Kris Gutierrez, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Kenji Hakuta, Stanford University
• Peter Johnston, University of Albany
• Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Nonie Leseaux, Harvard University
• Elizabeth Moje, University of Michigan
• Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, University of Michigan
• P. David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley
• Victoria Risko, Vanderbilt University (and IRA President)
• Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Catherine Snow, Harvard University
• Karen Wixson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

While each member may may be highly qualified the majority are US citizens and all are situated in the USA. I was under the impression that we are the INTERNATIONAL Reading Association. Why are there no INTERNATIONAL scholars on this panel?  The implication that only USA scholars have sufficient epxertise to members of  such a panel is professionally insulting to non-USA based scholars who are members of IRA.
Sincerely,
Brian Cambourne
Assoc. Prof. ( Dr) Brian Cambourne
Principal Fellow
 Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Northfields Rd Wollongong
AUSTRALIA
Phone: Overseas callers
Home 61-244-416182
email<brian_cambourne at uow.edu.au<mailto:brian_cambourne at uow.edu.au>
 Mobile/Cell phone: 0408684368
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Assoc. Prof. ( Dr) Brian Cambourne
Principal Fellow
 Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Northfields Rd Wollongong
AUSTRALIA
Phone: Overseas callers
Home 61-244-416182
email<brian_cambourne at uow.edu.au<mailto:brian_cambourne at uow.edu.au>
 Mobile/Cell phone: 0408684368
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