Re: AERA symposium on linguistic ideology

Ken Goodman (kgoodman who-is-at u.arizona.edu)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:39:23 -0700

There are several recent books that document the campaign cntered around
attacks on whole language and laws passed to impose ideology on
education through laws. Mine is called, "In Defense of Good Teaching:
What teachers need to know about the reading wars." It's published by
Stenhouse. NCTE has just published Denny Talors "Beginning to Read and
the Spin Doctors of Science" Gerry Coles book. "Reading Lessons" is
about to be released by Erlbaum. California is the prime example of
using law to impose ideology on practice in education even including a
loyalty oath to ideology in the application for approval to do staff
development in California. A very distinguished Black list has emerged.

I gave up on AERA because of the hegemony over reading research by a
small group. BUt I believe Gerry Coles and Richard Allington attend.
Ken Goodman

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