[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: response from PBS

Thu May 23 01:44:30 BST 2019

You are right on! Can we raise the funds, take the time, and hire the
personnel? We should be able to each of us locally raise funds. But we
should be able to do this at a national level. Where are our success
stories, where are our our grateful parents, where are the kids who didn’t
leave school because one of us did the right thing? If we can’t point to
our successes we can’t be effective. Are we willing to use those stories
(anecdotes) to fight a battle? I fear not. Researchers are generally not
crusaders. And without crusaders, and people committed to winning we won’t
succeed and we will continue to react. I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. And
I am tired of using using losing tactics.

I suppose a researcher’s path would be a carefully laid out research plan
that actually shows specific paths to literacy for specific types of
readers. Back to demonstrating subject treatment interactions.

C

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:45 PM Brian Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au> wrote:

> RHF Colleagues,
>  I’m in favour of some kind of campaign to achieve the two broad aims of
>  (i) Disseminating credible interpretations of the research, theory, and
> classroom practice that is continually emerging in our field (ii)
> Countering ( rebutting) the spurious claims and destructive policies being
> imposed by bureaucrats, politicians, ignorant journalists, and shonky
> program designers.
>
>  For the last few years I’ve been involved with groups in USA and Oz
> trying to organise and implement such campaigns.
>
> So far we’ve achieved very little. One of the issues both groups have is a
> strongly held “Enlightement" belief that all we need to do is engage in
> rationale debate, share the research which disproves our adversaries
>  claims ( and proves ours)  and everything will be OK once we get that
> information “ out there”.
>
> It’s the “ how we get it out there”  processes  that have worked against
> either of these groups achieving much change.
>
> My experience of being in such groups is that the traditional letters to
> the editor, presentations at conferences,  books and chapters in books,
> articles in refereed journals and/or popular magazines,  etc simply don’t
> work anymore. Writing them might make us feel good and give us a chance to
> vent some hubris, but they achieve very little.
>
> Unless we have the time, funds, and personnel to learn how to use social
> media like neocon ideologues, unless we have narratives based on beliefs
> and values that resonate with those we’re trying to influence, unless we
> have an army of trolls and supporters organised and ready to develop ,
> disseminate, (and rebut) the falsehoods they manufacture and disseminate,
> then we won’t achieve what we’d all like to achieve.
>
> Organising such a campaign means hours of meetings to identify what our
> values are, expressing these in language that is accessible to many
> different audiences, developing narratives based on those values, and
> deciding which platforms ( you tube, FB, Twitter, Blogs, Instagram etc) we
> use to get those narratives “ out there”.
>
> Have a bunch of elderly scholars like us have the time, energy, or
> resources to design and mount such a campaign?
>
> I know I suffer from what my family and colleagues call a“glass half empty
> personality disorder” but I’m willing to be convinced I’m wrong.
>  Brian Cambourne
>
> On 22 May 2019, at 10:24 pm, Cathy Roller <rollercm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How about a media campaign, Children learn to read in different ways. PSAs
> that show how different kids learn.  Feature PSAs with kids and parents and
> teachers talk about how they learn. Maybe Reading specialists talking about
> the same topic. Put money into a campaign.
>
> C
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 2:02 PM Colin Harrison <
> Colin.Harrison at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I love this worrying thought from Diane Ravitch’s piece:
>>
>> “The definitive work on the Reading Wars was written by Harvard
>> Professor (and former kindergarten teacher) Jeanne Chall, titled *Learning
>> to Read: The Great Debate *in 1967.
>> Nothing new has been said since then.”
>>
>> Google Scholar has a different perspective, and offers 1,160,000
>> publications on reading from 1967-2019 (this of course includes the 17,000
>> that link ‘Ravitch’ and ‘reading’).
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> From: <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of
>> P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
>> Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 05:56
>> To: Denny Taylor <Denny.Taylor at hofstra.edu>
>> Cc: "reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <
>> reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>> Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: response from PBS
>>
>> I ran across this entry on Diane Ravitch's blog.  A good example of how
>> NOT to approach the issue:
>>
>>
>> https://dianeravitch.net/2019/05/20/nancy-bailey-shame-on-pbs-for-its-misleading-program-on-reading-instruction/?fbclid=IwAR1bHL7UgG2IIeN7C0DK6ndUxAlFy_GcpMi6IxI1i-PiE7dHV_JfgZPRv1s
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 1:39 PM Denny Taylor <Denny.Taylor at hofstra.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Garn Press could repost if the RHF gives permission.
>>>
>>> We are a no-profit press supporting teachers and scientists. We publish
>>> below cost to make sure teachers have access to GP books.
>>>
>>> We also have a large network of educational bloggers who repost with
>>> Garn on a regular basis. I am sure many would also repost the letter. Add
>>> GP's social media reach and the letter would be widely distributed.
>>>
>>> You can access GP here: https://www.garnpress.com/
>>>
>>> Denny
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
>>> reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of
>>> Risko, Victoria J <victoria.j.risko at Vanderbilt.Edu>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 17, 2019 1:40:18 AM
>>> *To:* Norman Stahl; reinkin at clemson.edu;
>>> reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: response from PBS
>>>
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>>> Good suggestion, Norm.  Very important for us to be proactive.  Vicki
>>>
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>>> *From:* reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
>>> reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of
>>> Norman Stahl [flowercjs at aol.com]
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 16, 2019 11:36 AM
>>> *To:* reinkin at clemson.edu; reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: response from PBS
>>>
>>> Folks
>>>
>>> I tried to post this when the discussion of this issue first popped
>>> up...let's try once again as it may be even more appropriate now.
>>>
>>> We spend so much time in a reactive role as with the recent NPR piece.
>>>
>>> The need is...of course...to be a great deal more proactive as a group
>>> (at least within the legal requirements impacting the RHF).
>>>
>>> We each need to become active with the EWA (https://www.ewa.org
>>> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ewa.org&data=02%7C01%7Cdenny.taylor%40hofstra.edu%7C5261cbfd75d74fdcac0708d6da68b551%7Ce32fc43d7c6246d9b49fcd53ba8d9424%7C0%7C0%7C636936540610451290&sdata=pEe2KKC7p7G7rrjcj41lJL2DnCvhaJ8y%2F39r9ATPkUk%3D&reserved=0>
>>> ).
>>>
>>> The good Dr. Pearson once noted that he made a presentation to the group
>>> back during the midst of the Reading Wars.
>>>
>>> Even your signing up for their daily news release would make sense so as
>>> to have the lay of the land at least somewhat before certain topics hit
>>> more general release.
>>>
>>> Just a thought.....
>>>
>>> Norm
>>>
>>> Norman Stahl
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>>> https://www.readinghalloffame.org/node/658
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