Reading Wars

Articles

• The Haunted Third Grade Classrooms Children Fear: Enter and… Stay Forever! | Nancy Bailey.com
  • Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is a powerful corporate school reformer who made third grade retention one of his signature reform measures, even though retention has been around for years. There’s nothing innovative about failing third graders due to a test score. It’s punitive. Bush continues to push for third grade retention across the nation, ignoring the harm it can do to children.

• Some researchers, likely supporters of Bush’s school reform, have tried to put a positive spin on retention. They claim it leads to short-term gains, and some students might do better in high school. But they also end their report by saying that the research doesn’t find that students were clearly better off as a result of retention.

• The Reading Instruction Show’s Substack
  • Science of Reading” and the Educational Reform Movement: Actors, Networks, and Agendas

• Elena (Helen) Aydarova
  • Aydarova, E. (2023). “Whatever you want to call it”: Science of reading mythologies in the educational reform movement. Harvard Educational Review, 93(4): 556–581. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-93.4.556