“Science of Reading” Advocacy Stumbles, Falls
First, the stumble.
Yet another education journalist (also identified as a novelist and historian), Natalie Wexler, has weighed in on the “science of reading” (SoR). Wexler isn’t an educator, and she seems to suffer from the Columbus Syndrome far too common among journalists covering education.
I am not linking to the article, but it has already been updated since Wexler has received strong challenges to her tactics in this over-stated and misleading article
Accompanying the standard misrepresentations about teaching reading in the U.S., Wexler attempts to cast an accusatory shadow—invoking racism—over teaching reading by joining the “science of reading” propaganda movement.
However, Zaretta Hammond set the record straight on Twitter. In brief, Hammond challenges Wexler’s jumbled attempts at calling out racism and misguided references to recent racist police violence as well as implicating CONTINUE READING: “Science of Reading” Advocacy Stumbles, Falls – radical eyes for equity
