Today the Cal legislature is instuting the Democratic party reform
plan with accountability the center plank and lots of difficulties promised.
Listening to the head Ed honcho extol the plan, I was reminded of the factory
Fordist ethos in all the engineering folks are planning.
Could you post again the source where we can find the legal documents
embodying the injunction not to teach about context when teaching reading? I
can see how this grows out of a phonics approach and I even have some idea of
what it refers to (e.g., don't JUST guess from the word context) but it runs
so counter to well established research results on cognition in general
and reading in particular it seems like it should be vulnerable to critique.
Critique on what might pass for technical ("neutral") grounds-- if presented
in the right context (!! - :-) ).
At least, such an attempt might cause some productive trouble.
mike