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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the Lucy program but suspect I may be the only one here. I have been to some of their wonderful workshops at Teachers' College in NYC. You do not have to follow every script and teach every aspect of every lesson. You can adapt it and make it your own as you see fit.[/quote]

From what I can tell the LC and Reading Recovery people put on really nice and entertaining professional development workshops that teachers enjoy attending.  The better teachers take away a few strategies to use, and every experienced teacher has som good strategies to share.  But less experienced or less discerning teachers treat these programs as if they are the Way.

And since they aren’t based on sound reading science, then many children are not helped or even harmed by these approaches.  The most appalling part is that LC actively avoids talking about dyslexia (1 in 5 kids) and dismisses it as overdiagnosed instead of underremediated.

The other issue with these ineffective programs is that colleges of education make a lot of money from them.  So when that is combined with a historical (and disturbing) lack of sound empirical research and cross-field collaboration they are unlikely to change until their alumni force them to.[/quote]

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