The research we do at the local level – collaboratively – is what makes formal, outside research work. Outside research cannot be installed like a car part – it has to be fitted, adjusted, and refined for the school contexts we workd in.
These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda – to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.