Babes in the woods: The wanderings of the National Reading Panel

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 364-369

  Yatvin, Joanne ^a,b,c,d  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cottrell School District ^*  (United States)

^c Oregon Trail School District   (United Kingdom)

^d National Reading Panel   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039108171     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170208300509     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. I apologize to readers if my chronology of events contains minor errors. During the time I was writing the article, officials at NICHD prevented me from gaining access to the panel's archives, which previously had been open to all panel members and which were reopened briefly after the article was submitted to the Kappan.
2. Although I know I was nominated by the executive board of the International Reading Association, I have no idea how my name rose to the top of the list. At the time of my nomination I was a school district superintendent, but before the panel convened, my district merged with a larger one, and I became principal of two schools. I can only speculate that NICHD wanted someone with the title of superintendent and was not aware that my position had changed.
3. NRP Proceedings, 24 July 1998.
4. The only exception was an investigation of one aspect of the amount of student reading: nonstructured, nonsupervised, silent reading.
5. The executive director, an independent contractor, was hired by NICHD to guide the technical work of the NRP. His main function at this time was to synthesize the various subcommittee reports into a coherent whole.
6. NICHD has refused to pay any of my expenses for speaking at professional conferences. At one conference where another panel member and I took part in the same presentation, NICHD paid his expenses, but not mine.