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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t Steubenville, OH where that poor girl was gang raped by the football team or something like that?

It is interesting because Success for All is criticized for being overly prescriptive and getting kids ready for an authoritarian.  Meaning kids learn to follow all directions and not think for themselves.  Makes me wonder about the link between fascism, authoritarianism and assault.

Baltimore city used to use success for all.  They didn’t see a rise in test scores.

It is sad that the only measure of success this podcast is using is reading scores, not the making of good citizens.[/quote]

Wow. Maybe the program helped with reading and not other activities. Maybe it's a stretch to insinuate a reading program had an effect on things completely unrelated to reading[/quote]

School culture affects things. I find it sad that the podcast went down this path because this curriculum is known for being too directive.  It also didn’t work in Baltimore, where the JHU professor who created it lived/worked.

I also think using a too directive curriculum in this day and age with fascism breathing down our necks is dangerous.
I know this podcast is revered on this board and so I am raising this point now.

You can clearly deal and process this information however you want to. And do not have to make the “stretch” between school culture, the way we raise kids, politics and misogyny.

Yes, good readers are usually good citizens and we want all citizens to read and understand, but we also need citizens who are able to listen to others and take others viewpoints.

These are choices you can make and think about, but not if the curriculum is touted only as curing dyslexia and being amazing.  There are downsides everyone should be aware of as well.

This is how we ended up with Lucy Caulkins- everyone jumping on a curriculum bandwagon as an end all be all instead of thinking about the pros and cons of the curriculum. Why repeat that?  Think first.[/quote]

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