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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for the most relevant thread that covers the "Sold a Story" podcast and this seemed to be it. I've just finished the podcast and I'm so pissed. Who is being held accountable for this fraud?

Lucy Calkins is a charlatan. And Fountas and Pinell are narcissistic monsters who refuse to admit they were wrong.

So many black and brown children have been harmed by their wrongheaded philosophies. [/quote]

All children of all ethnicities have been greatly harmed by the Whole Language / Balanced Literacy stuff.  And everyone should thanks to the NoVA NAACP for putting pressure on Arlington and Fairfax counties to abandon this crap.[/quote]

I know all children have been harmed by these methods but I called out black and brown children because they were harmed even more than their white and Asian counterparts who were often able to mitigate the harm caused by the poor reading instruction in schools with private tutoring.[/quote]

That’s a bold statement. Can we be done with the race baiting?  Almost every educational reform done in the past half century has been in the name of improving black and brown children outcomes, including balanced literacy, and we have very little to show for it and the achievement gap remains wider than ever.  It’s because Asian kids have private tutors?  GTFO. Don’t comment when you don’t know what the hell you are talking about. [/quote]

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