I've long said that the #scienceofreading is about liberation. It's about prioritizing the needs of kids over those of wealthy, privileged, mostly white, literacy gurus. It is regressive to argue that we should maintain the status quo, in which kids get poor reading instruction that places them

at risk for reading failure (and places marginalized kids at the most risk), and that we should respect folks like Pinnell, and Irene Fountas, & Lucy Calkins. That we should be "professional" and "civil" towards Pinnell, Fountas, Calkins, & their ilk. No.