[Reading-hall-of-fame] Fwd: Scientific Findings and Classroom Practice

[Norman Stahl]

To fully understand the position and the power of Wexler one should read her book The Knowledge Gap (https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/the-knowledge-gap.pdf and https://nataliewexler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/TheKnowledgeGap_DiscussionGuide.pdf).  
Reading her articles written during her first crusade...synthetic phonics...should have been a warning. While those in the literacy profession may regard her to be a gadfly of sorts, her primary public audience has little regard for us. 
My underlying belief is that she would be happy if the entire traditional literacy field would fold up shop and just go away.  
Norm
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    On Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 07:41:38 PM CDT, Peter P. Afflerbach <afflo at umd.edu> wrote:   

 Every Natalie Wexler article illustrates her deep and abiding lack of knowledge re: literacy, research, curriculum and instruction. Great that she cites Emily Hanford tho…
On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM P David Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

So now we do basic research on how the mind works and draw deep inferences about practice from that work, ignoring (or more to the point, not investing in) any empirical work about curricular or pedagogical matters? Just the model we need for evidence-free society.  Oh, and while we are at it, let's do the same for medicine, pharmacology, public health, agriculture, economics, engineering, climate, and meteorology. 
Vexedly,David







  
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