Symbiosis: A Standardista Endorses a Direct Instructionist

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Symbiosis: A Standardista Endorses a Direct Instructionist” [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In “Re: Casualty of the Math Wars” [Hake (2012a)] at http://bit.ly/R1q22j I criticized Bishop et al.’s “A Close Examination of Jo Boaler’s Railside Report” http://tinyurl.com/czsa4c. Then in “R.L. Moore - Pioneer of Math Education Reform” [Hake (2013c)] at http://yhoo.it/132baYU, I criticized Bishop’s (2013b) “Re: Direct Instruction rocks: Or does it?” http://bit.ly/11f8CTH (click on the html attachment).

My criticism of Bishop's proclamations led standardista (in the educational sense employed by Susan Ohanian http://bit.ly/Xe7P56) Richard P. Phelps (2013) http://bit.ly/15kFCOc to endorse direct instructionist Wayne Bishop by portraying my criticism as simply “personal animosity” in a post of that title at http://bit.ly/15iMz2m. In this post I show that Phelps makes serious errors in each of his nine objections to my criticism.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Hake, R.R. 2013. “Symbiosis: A Standardista Endorses a Direct Instructionist” online on the OPEN Net-Gold archives at http://yhoo.it/15D10Ph. Post of 22 Apr 2013 18:43:32-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.