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 Children
of the Code: PBS Documentary Series on Reading
by David Boulton, Children of the Code, January 2004
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My name is David
Boulton and I am the producer of the PBS Documentary Children of
the Code. Our series tells the story of the invention of the
alphabet (the code) and its effects upon our civilizations, our
brains, our consciousness and how our children learn to read
(decode the code). Children of the Code will be the most
comprehensive and in-depth exploration of reading and its
consequences ever made widely available. For a brief overview of
the project please visit:
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/cotcintro.htm.
In collaboration with
New Horizons for Learning,
Learning 1st Productions and Implicity,
transcripts of many of the interviews will be published in advance of the series
broadcast.
The first in the series is the interview with
Dr. Grover Whitehurst,
Director of the Institute of
Education Sciences and Assistant Secretary of Education of the
U.S. Department of Education.
His interview can be found
by clicking here.
The
second in the series is the
interview with Dr. Anne Cunningham,
Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education with
the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley and Historian of
the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
Her interview
can be found
by clicking here.
The
third in the series is the
interview with
Dr. Donald L. Nathanson, Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical
College, Founding Executive Director of the Silvan S. Tomkins
Institute.
His interview
can be found
by clicking here.
Here is a
partial list of our completed interviews (we have another 20 in
the works):
Dr. Russ Whitehurst, Assistant. Secretary, U.S. Department of
Education, Director, Institute of Educational Sciences.
Dr. Reid Lyon, Branch Chief, National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development at the National Institute of Health.
James Wendorf, Executive Director, National Center for Learning
Disabilities.
Paula Tallal, Ph.D., Board of Governor's Chair of Neuroscience
and Co-Director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral
Neuroscience at Rutgers University.
Dr. Jones Kyazze, Director, UNESCO, Architect of UN's "Decade of
Literacy"
Lesley M. Morrow, Ph.D., President, International Reading
Association
Chris Doherty, Director, Reading First, U.S. Department of
Education
Dr. Daniel Wagner, Director, International Literacy Institute (ILI),
Founding Director of the Literacy Research Center, Director of
the National Center on Adult Literacy.
Dr. Richard Allington, Vice-President, International Reading
Association
Walter Isaacson, CEO Aspen Institute (formerly Chairman of CNN
and Managing Editor of Time Magazine)
Terrence W. Deacon, Ph.D, Berkeley, Neuroscientist, Evolutionary
Anthropologist, author of The Symbolic Species (The Co-Evolution
of Language and the Brain),
Johanna Drucker, Ph.D., author, The Alphabetic Labyrinth,
Professor, Department of the History of Art at Yale University.
Bruce Thornton, Ph.D., author, How the Greeks Created Western
Civilization, Professor of Classics and Humanities and Chairman
of the Foreign Language Department at California State
University at Fresno.
Dr. Leonard Shalin author of The Alphabet vs. The Goddess and
Art and Physics, chief of Laparoscopic Surgery at California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
Naomi Baron, Ph.D., author, Alphabet to Email (How Written
English Evolved and Where It's Heading), Professor of
Linguistics, American University.
Richard Venezky, Ph.D., author of The Structure of English
Orthography and The American Way of Spelling, Unidel Professor
of Educational Studies and professor of Computer, Information
Sciences and Linguistics at the University of Delaware.
Anne E. Cunningham, Ph.D. Historian, Society for the Scientific
Study of Reading, Director, Joint Doctoral Program in Special
Education, Berkeley
Donald L. Nathanson. M.D., author, Shame and Pride, Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical
College
The
website, Children of the Code,
expects to publish a new interview every few weeks.
Click here to see the index of transcripts coming soon.
Click here to be notified of future interview releases.
For more
information on Children of the Code, visit
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/cotcintro.htm.
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