{"id":135,"date":"2008-05-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=135"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:05:47","slug":"isnt-it-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t it Ironic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the most popular, hired and prolific members of the EduBlogosphere (particularly the edtech bloggers) spend a great deal of time, word count and airplane mileage talking about the importance of literacy &#8211; old literacy, new literacy, media literacy, superdooper 21st Century Web 2.0 literacy and &#8220;literacies&#8221; yet to be invented.<\/p>\n<p>Literacy dominates my esteemed colleague&#8217;s thoughts about education. Therefore, I find it shocking that there is so little [read: none] discussion of the news that the federal Department of Education has concluded that Reading First, the $6 billion shock and awe approach to literacy education at the core of No Child Left Behind, has FAILED to improve the reading comprehension of American students.<\/p>\n<p>Why the silence among EduBloggers? Is this issue unimportant? Should we ignore the calamity created by Reading First just because it doesn&#8217;t mention Twitter, Apture, Ning or other made-up words?<\/p>\n<p>Or, are you waiting to be told what to think by Tom Friedman or Daniel Pink?<\/p>\n<p>Too bad the self-proclaimed prophets of the information and media literacy &#8220;revolution&#8221; have nothing to offer the educators who will need to cleanup this mess created by the Bush Administration and perpetuated by those who remained silent when they knew better.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;ve been writing about this issue for four years. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stager.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-told-you-so.html\">anthology<\/a> of this work may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stager.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-told-you-so.html\">here<\/a>. I hope to have a more substantive piece published for a larger audience sometime this week. 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