Re: FW: [ca-resisters] No child left too short

["LLonald King" <llon@comcast.net>]

If this is supposted to be a rejoinder to Professor Krashen's
well-reasoned and witty op-ed letter, it certainly falls flat.
I strongly suspect that there is nothing in North Korean law that
forbids feeding children healthy meals either, proving....nothing at
all.

LLon King 


ArtBurke wrote:
|There is nothing in NCLB that forbids the purchase of reading 
|materials for 
|disadvantaged students, and that has been true for all the 
|various incarnations 
|of NCLB back to its origin in 1965.
|
|Art
|
|In a message dated 2/16/2004 8:31:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
|learn@jps.net 
|writes:
|Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:18:34 -0800
|To: ca-resisters@interversity.org
|From: Peter Farruggio <pfarr@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
|Subject: [ca-resisters] No child left too short
|
|>Sent to the LA Times.
|>
|>According to the LA Times ("A small problem growing,"
|>Feb. 12) because of nutritional deficiencies, North
|>Koreans are not as tall as South Koreans. The North
|>Korean prime minister has recommended stretching
|>exercises for children as a means of making them
|>taller.  He must have been inspired by No Child Left
|>Behind and the National Reading Panel. Their approach
|>is also to stretch children by artificial (and
|>painful) means.  Children of poverty read less well
|>than children of high-income families because they
|>have less access to print. Instead of providing more
|>print (e.g. better school and public libraries in
|>high-poverty areas), No Child Left Behind prescribes
|>(and demands) skill-building: e.g. phonics,
|>vocabulary, and reading comprehension exercises.  Just
|>like stretching,  it is painful, and just like
|>stretching, it doesn't work.  Korean children need
|>better nutrition.  Children of poverty with little
|>access to books need better access to books. There is
|>no substitute.
|>
|>Saying that we must insist on skills because children
|>just won't read is like saying hungry children just
|>won't eat. But studies clearly show that given
|>interesting and comprehensible reading material,
|>nearly all children find reading pleasant and
|>eventually read.
|>
|>Stephen Krashen
|
|
|George Sheridan
|