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Article: AT ODDS: THE NRP REPORT ON PHONICS - More Smoking Guns: A Response to Linnea Ehri and Steven Stahl.(National Reading Panel findings)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- September 1, 2001
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Her critique of the National Reading Panel report did not uncover minor oversights or occasional errors, Ms. Garan responds. Rather, it documented a consistent pattern of sloppy research and, what's worse, blatant and continuing misrepresentation of findings.
IN MY MARCH article, "Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: A Critique of the National Reading Panel Report on Phonics," I used the data and words of the National Reading Panel (NRP) to establish that its report was fatally flawed in terms of the most fundamental research protocols, including validity, reliability, and generalizability. I established that, rather than living up to the highly publicized claims of ...