Harvey J. Graff

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04 August 2023

The broken, no--the evil triangle of the City of Columbus vs. its residents

Part One

My focus in this essay is what I name “the broken—or the evil—triangle” of Columbus versus...

02 August 2023

August 2, 2023 Weekly Headline notes

Harvey J. Graff

ONE. The Ohio State legislature approved $24 million to establish “intellectual diversity” centers at five Ohio public...

26 July 2023

Natural powers and the lessons of contradictions: Changing lives and environments

Harvey J. Graff

Reading the fascinating, apparently counter-intuitive report “Parched Peru is restoring pre-Incan dikes to solve its water problem” (Simeon Tegel, ...

21 July 2023

How can you recover reading when there was none? A revealing case study of academic dishonesty, capitalizing education, institutional and collegial collusion, and damage to children

Harvey J. Graff

Part Three
Very real debates continue about appropriate expectations for children of different ages and for variations especially by social,...

17 July 2023

The Ohio State University’s and Heinemann Publishing’s Fountas and Pinnell aka Reading Recovery

Harvey J. Graff

Part Two
Faculty members and OSU College of Education degree holders Gay Su Pinnell and children’s literature professor and Pinnell’s teacher...

12 July 2023

How can you recover reading when there was none?

Harvey J. Graff

Part One
It should surprise no one that in 21st century United States, young children’s learning to read is a landmine within academic...