“In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.”

“The research we do at the local level - collaboratively - is what makes formal, outside research work. Outside research cannot be installed like a car part - it has to be fitted, adjusted, and refined for the school contexts we workd in.”

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.”

“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”

“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).”

“When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.”

“These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.”