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Stephen Downes

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I normally stay away from education policy discussions, but I want to highlight once again citicisms of the 'science of reading' (SOR) program. This article focuses on Last week in a Boston Globe article introducing it as a new  'superpower' a 'research backed practice' endorsed by 'experts'. "Relax," writes Maurice Cunningham. "It's just the Globe promoting a for-profit corporation named Ignite Reading which is based in the K-12 privatization industry." As Cunningham writes, "peer reviewed research finds SOR dubious, but it is a money maker." There's a lot of dark money supporting school privatization, writes Cunningham, and SOR is part of it.

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