Danger in the Classroom: 'Brain Glitch' Research and Learning to Read

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 344-351

  Coles, Gerald ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 0346492681     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170408500504     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Sally Shaywitz, Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level (New York: Knopf, 2003), p. 4.
2. William Uttal, The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001), p. 6.
3. Gerald Coles, "The Learning-Disabilities Test Battery: Empirical and Social Issues," Harvard Educational Review, August 1978, pp. 313-40.
4. Mary Gail Hare, "'Reading Czar' Has Talk with Educators," Baltimore Sun, 17 September 2002.
5. Shaywitz, p. ix.
6. Ibid., p. 175.
7. Christine Gorman, "The New Science of Dyslexia," Time, 28 July 2003.
8. I b i d.
9. Robyn Suriano, "Brain Studies May Lead to Reading Revolution," Orlando Sentinel, 15 December 2002.
10. Center for Education Reform, "Reading, 'Riting, and Common Sense," Monthly Letter, December 2001, p. 1.
11. Gerald Coles, The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at "Learning Disabilities" (New York: Pantheon, 1987).
12. Bennett Shaywitz, Sally Shaywitz, et al., "Disruption of Posterior Brain Systems of Reading in Children with Developmental Dyslexia," Biological Psychiatry, vol. 52, 2002, pp. 101-10. (Hereafter cited as Shaywitz/Lyon.)
13. National Reading Panel, Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read: Reports of the Subgroups (Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000). For a thorough critique of the report, see Gerald Coles, Reading the Naked Truth: Literacy, Legislation and Lies (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003).
14. National Reading Panel, Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read: Reports of the Subgroups (Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000). For a thorough critique of the report, see Gerald Coles, Reading the Naked Truth: Literacy, Legislation and Lies (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003).
15. Shaywitz/Lyon, p. 101.
16. See, for example, Gerald Coles, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000). Other work that critiques the "consensus" model includes Elaine Garan, "Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: A Critique of the National Reading Panel Report on Phonics," Phi Delta Kappan, March 2001, pp. 500-506; Stephen Krashen, "False Claims About Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Skills vs. Whole Language, and Recreational Reading," May 2003, www.nochildleft.com; and Joanne Yatvin, "Babes in the Woods: The Wanderings of the National Reading Panel," Phi Delta Kappan, January 2002, pp. 364-69.
17. See, for example, Gerald Coles, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000). Other work that critiques the "consensus" model includes Elaine Garan, "Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: A Critique of the National Reading Panel Report on Phonics," Phi Delta Kappan, March 2001, pp. 500-506; Stephen Krashen, "False Claims About Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Skills vs. Whole Language, and Recreational Reading," May 2003, www.nochildleft.com; and Joanne Yatvin, "Babes in the Woods: The Wanderings of the National Reading Panel," Phi Delta Kappan, January 2002, pp. 364-69.
18. See, for example, Gerald Coles, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000). Other work that critiques the "consensus" model includes Elaine Garan, "Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: A Critique of the National Reading Panel Report on Phonics," Phi Delta Kappan, March 2001, pp. 500-506; Stephen Krashen, "False Claims About Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Skills vs. Whole Language, and Recreational Reading," May 2003, www.nochildleft.com; and Joanne Yatvin, "Babes in the Woods: The Wanderings of the National Reading Panel," Phi Delta Kappan, January 2002, pp. 364-69.
19. See, for example, Gerald Coles, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000). Other work that critiques the "consensus" model includes Elaine Garan, "Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: A Critique of the National Reading Panel Report on Phonics," Phi Delta Kappan, March 2001, pp. 500-506; Stephen Krashen, "False Claims About Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Skills vs. Whole Language, and Recreational Reading," May 2003, www.nochildleft.com; and Joanne Yatvin, "Babes in the Woods: The Wanderings of the National Reading Panel," Phi Delta Kappan, January 2002, pp. 364-69.
20. Shaywitz/Lyon, p. 101.
21. "Children's Reading Disability Attributed to Brain impairment, " NIHNICHD Press Release, 2 August 2002, available at www.nih.gov/news/pr/aug2002/nichd-02.htm.
22. Shaywitz, p. 86.
23. Elise Temple et al., "Neural Deficits in Children with Dyslexia Ameliorated by Behavioral Remediation: Evidence from Functional MRI," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 4 March 2003, p. 2860.
24. Panagiotis Simos et al., "Dyslexia-Specific Brain Activation Profile Becomes Normal Following Successful Remedial Training," Neurology, vol. 58, 2002, pp. 1203-13.
25. Gerald Coles and Leonide Goldstein, "Hemispheric EEG Activation and Literacy Development," International Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology, vol. 7, 1985, pp. 3-7.
26. Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Putnam, 1994).
27. Joseph E. LeDoux, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
28. Michael Lewis et al., "The Cognitive-Emotional Fugue," in Carroll E. Izard, Jerome Kagan, and Robert B. Zajonc, eds., Emotions, Cognition, and Behavior (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 264-88.
29. Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (New York: Norton, 2001), pp. 3, 103, 150.
30. Philip Lieberman, Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 2-4.
31. Uttal, pp. 135-6.
32. Philip Lieberman, Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution (New York: Norton, 1998), p. 132.
33. Sol Stern, "$40 Million Goof," New York Post, 20 October 2003.