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

[P Pearson]

Thanks for the clarification.  I interpreted your comments as suggesting
that I should have chosen a different focus.

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:10 PM Hoffman, James <James.Hoffman at unt.edu>
wrote:

> Not at all disappointed. I tried to make that clear in my first sentence.
> Because you were quoted in the article you had the standing to say and
> write what you did and It was perfect. The bulleted points at the end are a
> moving tribute.  Sorry, if my frustration with the science of reading came
> across as a questioning of what you wrote.
> jim
>
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> *From:* P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2020 10:01 PM
> *To:* Hoffman, James <James.Hoffman at unt.edu>
> *Cc:* reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
> reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: [EXT] [Reading-hall-of-fame] ppearson at berkeley.edu sent
> you an Education Week Article.
>
> 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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> *Subject:* [EXT] [Reading-hall-of-fame] ppearson at berkeley.edu sent you an
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