[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: [EXT] ppearson at berkeley.edu sent you an Education Week Article.

[P Pearson]

I agree with you, Jim.. Much more could and should have been said. Other
letters were being written that were more direct critiques of the sort you
are asking for. Apparently they did not get published, at least not this
week.

But I had 300 words to say something.  And I had to make choices.  And I
chose to try to do three things
(a) reprimand them for failing to celebrate him as a scholar and change
agent,
(b) focus on what I think are weightier issues underlying all his work:
epistemology, equity, and power/authority, and
(c) pay personal tribute to his mentorship.

Sorry you are disappointed with my choice of emphases.

David



On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 7:41 PM Hoffman, James <James.Hoffman at unt.edu>
wrote:

> I appreciate your following up with your letter David (and your comments
> inside of the article itself) but this tribute(?) is HORRIBLE. How can
> Education Week dismiss Ken's work in one paragraph (about 50 years of
> research) when the only reference is a link  to a horrible article
> published in Education Week. Ken's career and scholarship was much more
> than whole language ( that he claimed "found him").  The one thing they got
> right is "Ken's science is different." . . . certainly different from the
> "science of reading" that Education Week has taken up as truth. I'm sorry,
> but I am also deeply disturbed also with how the article speaks about Yetta
> . . yes, a frequent research collaborator . . but a scholar in her own
> right and should have been represented as such.
>
> Is this how low people are willing to go to advance a political agenda?
> Why not engage with real ideas Ken was fighting for throughout his career
> --AND live on in the work we pursue.
>
> frustrated,  jim
>
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