Twitter exchange re concerns about entrenchment of Reading Recovery in England

[Debbie_Hepplewhite]

Initial tweet by highly regarded Dylan Wiliam:

Dylan Wiliam

328 studies over 50 years show that direct instruction (structured guidance for teachers, teaching discrete skills before application, daily checks on learning, regular testing for mastery) has consistent, large positive effects on student achievement: http://bit.ly/2Leaaxl ($)

Re-tweet by Professor Daniel Muijs:

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@ProfDanielMuijs

Good to see this groundswell of finally acknowledging the effectiveness of Direct Instruction. Some of us have been saying this for many years, and received the harshest criticism for doing so.

My question to Daniel via my retweet:

But Daniel, does it concern you and Dylan that Reading Recovery is still entrenched in parts of England despite the 2009 Science and Technology select committee findings and recommendations, and despite damning reviews of its efficacy? http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... f=4&t=1054 …

Daniel's response via Twitter:

Replying to @debbiehepp
Yes, it does.

Another comment I made in response to the Dylan Wiliam tweet:

I wonder how many studies we'll need before people finally accept that Reading Recovery is not fit for purpose and goes against the body of research into reading instruction that finds against multi-cueing word-guessing? http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... f=4&t=1054 …

In 2018 Ofsted appointed Professor Daniel Muijs to be its new Head of Research.

My red colouring above!

[Debbie_Hepplewhite]

And now a Reading Recovery launch in Scotland.

Anne Glennie wrote this tweet:

I actually feel physically sick reading this 'news' about Reading Recovery launching in Scotland. No longer funded in its place of birth (New Zealand) but we're lapping it up here. #despair http://www.gtcs.org.uk/News/teaching-sc ... overy.aspx … @tombennett71