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. @LouisaMoats in @reading_league podcast with @Stewartlaurad: (thread) “There are many barriers that are sort of co-conspirators in maintaining the status quo, perpetuating bad ideas, failing to support teachers and better practices, and so on. There’s not one culprit..." (1/6)
"It’s a kind of conspiracy of resistance. Where are the barriers? The barriers are entrenched ideas in the schools of education, that are changing very slowly. The barriers are the appearance that reading instruction should be pretty simple and straightforward..." (2/6)
"And so publishers put out these simple-minded solutions to reading instruction that people embrace (because) they have face validity and intuitive appeal. Things like leveled books, cueing systems, ideas a naïve person might embrace. There’s a void there.." (3/6)
"And these publishers respond to the void with these simplistic solutions, coated over with nice slogans. And then there’s a culture in education, which is very hard to put your finger on… this embedded culture of ‘humanistic ideals’ and social justice ideals tied in...." (4/6)
"... with flaky ideas about how to teach reading, that… if you have a library of books that better represent the social strata and racial diversity in our society, and you have kids reading from books where the illustrations are more like what kids really look like..." (5/6)
"- that that’s the solution. Or you have a lot of focus on, ‘Well, let’s get more teachers who are of diverse racial and economic backgrounds to match the kids.’ Well, you know, that begs the question, still, how are you going to teach them to read?” (6/6) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-w-dr-louisa-moats/id1537471085?i=1000496162155
