Comments on: why the rich get richer – read all about it http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/ the curious study of broken things Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:50:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: knackeredhack http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 knackeredhack Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:29:59 +0000 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/#comment-1235 Susan Thanks for your comments. This is a difficult and highly charged area as Michael's paper highlights. We will be watching this space, but for the time being economics alone sadly prevents me from rifling through the rubbish bins at the back of the DfES, or I suppose DCSF, as it must now be called. Susan

Thanks for your comments. This is a difficult and highly charged area as Michael’s paper highlights. We will be watching this space, but for the time being economics alone sadly prevents me from rifling through the rubbish bins at the back of the DfES, or I suppose DCSF, as it must now be called.

]]> By: Susan http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1233 Susan Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:22:49 +0000 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/#comment-1233 I find it strange that Michael appears to be pro-synthetic phonics yet he endorses Hatcher's work. Peter Hatcher and his colleagues produced the Cumbria Reading Intervention programme which is a mixture of phonological awareness and Reading Recovery type exercises. There is no evidence that phonological exercises (sounds only) have any benefit for teaching children to read and Reading Recovery is a gruesome, hugely expensive, whole-language, multi-cuing, intervention programme (perversely being funded and promoted by Gordon Brown as the programme of choice for our most vulnerable children) that is the complete antithisis of synthetic phonics. Come to think of it, the inexplicable use of Reading Recovery in our schools would be an excellent subject for a good investigative journalist to take on ;-) Best wishes Susan I find it strange that Michael appears to be pro-synthetic phonics yet he endorses Hatcher’s work. Peter Hatcher and his colleagues produced the Cumbria Reading Intervention programme which is a mixture of phonological awareness and Reading Recovery type exercises. There is no evidence that phonological exercises (sounds only) have any benefit for teaching children to read and Reading Recovery is a gruesome, hugely expensive, whole-language, multi-cuing, intervention programme (perversely being funded and promoted by Gordon Brown as the programme of choice for our most vulnerable children) that is the complete antithisis of synthetic phonics.

Come to think of it, the inexplicable use of Reading Recovery in our schools would be an excellent subject for a good investigative journalist to take on ;-)
Best wishes
Susan

]]> By: knackeredhack http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1225 knackeredhack Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:56:28 +0000 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/#comment-1225 Michael, thanks for those comments and the pointer to the research, a link to which I've added to the bottom of the post. We can only hope that, sort of like the smoking ban, the rest of the UK gets the idea too. Michael, thanks for those comments and the pointer to the research, a link to which I’ve added to the bottom of the post.

We can only hope that, sort of like the smoking ban, the rest of the UK gets the idea too.

]]> By: Michael Rice http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 Michael Rice Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:59:33 +0000 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/10/why-the-rich-get-richer-read-all-about-it/#comment-1222 Tim, I think that no public honour could be too great for Tommy MacKay, in view of what he has achieved in West Dunbartonshire. His work, and that of one or two others (such as, in a more specific context, Peter Hatcher and his colleagues at the University of York) has formidable implications for the future literacy of the United Kingdom. The reading remediation industry has been described as an ambulance at the foot of a cliff, but West Dunbartonshire presents a formidable challenge to the fatalism implicit in this approach to reading difficulties. By the way, some of the technical issues in the teaching of reading and reading remediation are addressed in: Rice, M., & Brooks, G. (2004). Developmental Dyslexia in Adults: a research review. London: National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy [Accessible on-line from the NRDC website]. I hope you don't mind my mentioning it. Best wishes, Michael Tim,

I think that no public honour could be too great for Tommy MacKay, in view of what he has achieved in West Dunbartonshire. His work, and that of one or two others (such as, in a more specific context, Peter Hatcher and his colleagues at the University of York) has formidable implications for the future literacy of the United Kingdom. The reading remediation industry has been described as an ambulance at the foot of a cliff, but West Dunbartonshire presents a formidable challenge to the fatalism implicit in this approach to reading difficulties. By the way, some of the technical issues in the teaching of reading and reading remediation are addressed in: Rice, M., & Brooks, G. (2004). Developmental Dyslexia in Adults: a research review. London: National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy [Accessible on-line from the NRDC website]. I hope you don’t mind my mentioning it.

Best wishes,

Michael

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