[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: 2015 European Conference symposium

Fri Aug 15 16:20:54 BST 2014

IRAs basic problem is the vanishing of reading specialists. 90 percent of high-poverty schools now use the Schoolwide model which means they now no longer employ Title1 reading specialists but use federal Title 1 funds to run after school and summer school programs. Federal data now indicate there are a sufficient number of reading specialists to provide one for every 13th elementary school. The number of grad programs producing reading specialists has sharply declined, perhaps 1/3 as many as existed 30 years ago. IRA has basically sat around twiddling its thumbs while special Ed (LD primarily) has taken over the issue of dealing with struggling readers (as Anne set out in her 1987 RRQ paper). IRA attendance is down because there are few Title 1 teachers left to attend. Moving the annual meeting to July will not ameliorate the loss of reading specialists in profession. IRAs intentional role in the ever decreasing supply of reading specialists field IRAs demise. Maybe IRA will come back but even Rich Long is now heading a special Ed/LD initiative on reading. Sorry state of affairs but IRA has had its eyes basically closed on the issues around Title 1 and Rdg specialists for 3 decades.  

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> On Aug 15, 2014, at 9:28 AM, "P. David Pearson" <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> From the responses I have seen, and if our goal is maximizing attendance, I think we’d be better off holding our annual breakfast meeting at the European Conference rather than at IRA in St Louis!!!!
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> David
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> Sounds to me like IRA found a summer conference date that exhibits the maximum possible number of conflicts with the conferences of other literacy-related organizations.  Add SSSR to the list too.
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> On Aug 14, 2014, at 8:40 PM, Camille Blachowicz <CBlachowicz at nl.edu> wrote:
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> I will be there also.
> Camille
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> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:28 AM, "Timothy Shanahan" <shanahan at uic.edu<mailto:shanahan at uic.edu>> wrote:
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> I'll be there
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> On Aug 14, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Bob Calfee <robert.calfee at ucr.edu<mailto:robert.calfee at ucr.edu>> wrote:
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> Will anyone be going to St. Louis?  Bob
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> From: reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of McGill-Franzen, Anne
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> Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: 2015 European Conference symposium
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> Jane, Dick and I will be attending the conference and happy to present as part of the RHF symposium.
> Anne
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> From: reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] on behalf of Jane Hansen [jh5re at virginia.edu<mailto:jh5re at virginia.edu>]
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> Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] 2015 European Conference symposium
> Hello to all Reading Hall of Fame members,
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> I am writing about the European Conference Call for Papers we all received from Renate Valtin, RHFame member who is a professor in Berlin. She invited RHFame members to create a symposium for their 2015 Conference in Klagenfurt, Austria.
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> I have talked with Rita Bean (president-elect) and Vicki Risko (secretary), and have this request:
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> It would be wonderful if RHFame could have a presence at the European Conference, and I would like, please, for someone(s) who is interested to proceed, and keep me in your loop. Maybe some of you have already started, and I'd love to receive that news. In either case, we could designate your symposium as a RHFame session.
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> The deadline for proposals is November 1, so please let me know in a somewhat timely manner. If, by chance, no one jumps in, then, we may recruit.
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> You need to note the following dates, as the European Conference is close to IRA. The European dates are July 13-16, and IRA is July 17-20, 2015.
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> I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you!
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> Sincerely,
> Jane
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> Jane Hansen
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> Here is the link for the call for papers:
> www.lesenundschreiben.at/19th-european-conference-on-reading/call-for-papers.html<http://www.lesenundschreiben.at/19th-european-conference-on-reading/call-for-papers.html>
> And, here is other information about the Conference:
> General pages concerning the conference:www.lesenundschreiben.at/19th-european-conference-on-reading.html<http://www.lesenundschreiben.at/19th-european-conference-on-reading.html> and follow it on Facebook (www.facebook.com/literacyaustria<http://www.facebook.com/literacyaustria>) to stay up to date.
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