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

Thu Jun 11 05:59:31 BST 2020

The very points both of your made is why I cancelled my subscription to Education Week years ago.  They cannot be trusted to trust science!  When that happens, we are all turned into non-scholars.  I am so disgusted, dismayed, and disappointed, though not surprised, by this dreadful entry.  And I am furious at the way in which Yetta's solid scholarly role for all of us was treated as though she was an "also" person!

Horrors!  And a pox on all their houses!

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

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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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<mailto: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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