[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Amanda Gorman and Hooked on Phonics

[Thomas Sticht]

Gregg: I remember well that evening on the Seine in Paris following
meetings of the World Symposium on Family Literacy (a term and concept
coined by our fellow HoF member Denny Taylor). Anyone wanting to take a
look at the final report of the Symposium can find a copy online at:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000117073?posInSet=2&queryId=2d2f796f-e210-4d2d-a71e-1cf6d7d0750b

Tom Sticht

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On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 9:16 AM Greg Brooks <g.brooks at sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:

> Friends
> An item about Amanda Gorman in a recent issue of the Guardian newspaper in
> the UK:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/amanda-gorman-i-wanted-my-words-to-re-sanctify-the-steps-of-the-capitol
> included the intriguing fact that HoP got her started as a reader.
> Back in the day (much too long ago to have been in Amanda Gorman's
> lifetime) I remember
> 1) attending a large literacy conference in Paris funded by HoP, which
> included a long evening dinner on a bateau mouche cruising up and down the
> Seine, complete with jazz trio
> 2) that, not long after that, HoP collapsed because of being sued for
> misleading advertising.
> Colin Harrison (our webmeister) pointed me to the company's chequered
> history summarised here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Phonics>
> Now I thought that IRA (as it then was) had been involved in the suit
> against HoP, but there's mention of that on that wiki page.
> And I gather that HoP rose from the seeming dead, not once but twice and
> is apparently thriving.
> Over to others for more!
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