Re: phonics politics

KEN GOODMAN (kgoodman who-is-at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU)
Tue, 07 May 1996 19:07:23 -0700 (MST)

I don't intend to renew the genre debates we had in Australia. But I do
want to say that Jim Martin's view of literacy education in Australia is
quaint.

The Newsweek article I mentioned is out and is as bad as I had expected.
As you read it, if you choose to do so, ask yourself why Newsweek chose
to publish this strangely uniformed and uniformitive article now. They
got the quote from me half right and misidentified me as a professor of
reading. Ah well.
Ken Goodman
Language, Reading and Culture
University of Arizona