Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e9GIW9912082; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <17610741@mailbox2.Hitchcock.ORG> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Walter.F.Wallace@Hitchcock.ORG (Walter F. Wallace) To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2619] Re: October Forbes Article re: "The Crisis That Isn't" X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: OR --- You wrote: Thank you Robert, for alerting us to this important article. I encourage everyone to read it - it certainly is damning of information many of us hold dear. For everyone - how do you think we should respond? Individually, collectively, or some other way? --- end of quote --- In reading the article I don't think it damns any of the information I hold dear but rather damns the polemicist himself for not understanding literacy as a political issue, a field of scholarship, nor as something that has social meaning with economic dimensions. Altho I suspect the article will settle in the dustbin of history, some kind of collective response (letter to the editor?) might be in order perhaps by way of an informed writing campaign swamping the Forbes office. Walter Walter Wallace GME DHMC
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