Follow the Yellow Brick Road or Lost in the Forest of Professional Educational Argument
ion and educational platitude but rarely, if ever, served by the schools, I can still muster a sincere though forlorn amen to this latest incantation for a merging of forces to serve that longsuffering soul. However, I would hope to do so with a map of the road to heaven before me that is as accurate as possible. I am not at all sure that Lerner provides an accurate map in this article, though sooner or later, as I’ve said, we do meet in that heavenly plea for apple pie in every kitchen. One of the problems in reading Lerner’s paper is its stylistic penchant for syntactic balance but substantive bias. In attempting to compare/ contrast specialists in RR with specialists in LD, Lerner, perhaps unintentionally, more than once resorts to such &dquo;logic&dquo; as we used to trade in quips when we were high school sophomores: &dquo;Do you walk to school or carry your lunch?&dquo; Except that Lerner also tends to load the question, non sequiter that it is: