I always enjoy your explorations of pedagogy, especially how research has influenced it. I read Dick and Jane in elementary school, and used the Gray Oral Reading Test as a sped teacher and psychologist.
Thanks, Mike, for the kind words. I'm pretty sure I can say Gray had similar influences on me.
William Gray did a whole lot more than those two things, too. Around the time when the Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read....," threatened the reading world, the leaders in reading circled the wagons and founded the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association); the first president of that organization was William Gray. From the 1930s through the 1950s he published an annual list of research articles related to reading ("Summary of Reading Investigations") in the Elementary School Journal and then Journal of Educational Research (Reading Research Quarterly continued the practice for many years).
I always enjoy your explorations of pedagogy, especially how research has influenced it. I read Dick and Jane in elementary school, and used the Gray Oral Reading Test as a sped teacher and psychologist.
Thanks, Mike, for the kind words. I'm pretty sure I can say Gray had similar influences on me.
William Gray did a whole lot more than those two things, too. Around the time when the Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read....," threatened the reading world, the leaders in reading circled the wagons and founded the International Reading Association (now International Literacy Association); the first president of that organization was William Gray. From the 1930s through the 1950s he published an annual list of research articles related to reading ("Summary of Reading Investigations") in the Elementary School Journal and then Journal of Educational Research (Reading Research Quarterly continued the practice for many years).