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A Literacy Pioneer
GSE Harvard:
Jan 2020
It
would be difficult to discuss what we know about early literacy without
mentioning Jeanne
Chall. As a seminal researcher on the developmental stages of reading,
Chall was among the first to delve into complex and widely debated ideas on how
children learn to read and how stressors like poverty impact their ability to
do so.
Jeanne
Chall wrote the book on reading — and left a scholarly legacy that offers fresh
hope in combatting today’s literacy gaps.
Responding
to a national crisis in children’s literacy in the 1950s and 60s, Chall’s
support of phonics instruction over the whole-language approach pushed back
against popular beliefs even as it propelled her career. She described learning
to read as a “developmental process,” advocating for using phonics and
challenging literature as the best ways to teach children to read.
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| Becoming a Nation of Readers (1985) |
She
spent her life and career advocating for better services for every child.
“Perhaps the best way to solve the adult literacy problem is by prevention —
with better instruction and services for all children, and particularly for
those that tend to lag behind,” she wrote in the Harvard Crimson in 1986, about
growing rates of adult illiteracy. READ MORE
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There
are countless stories to tell about the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
As we celebrate our Centennial, we've chosen to spotlight 100 of them — a
sampling of HGSE's indelible impact on the field of education. We'll add a new
batch every month, culminating in 100 Stories of Impact in October 2020.
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