When she asks them to describe what they saw, hands shoot up. I saw the sky as a rectangle, and the sun looks like a perfect round circle. The lion is an oval with a square for its nose. The classroom is full of books. Along one wall, beneath the deep windows, the shelves are filled with plastic book bins marked with masking tape.
Bookshelves hold math textbooks and still more children's books.
Gloria listens intently to a reading group. UA beginnings Ken and Yetta Goodman came to the UA in 1976, among the distinguished researchers President John Schaefer was hiring to make UA a place for scientific research. But UA offered them the chance to teach undergraduates and graduate students and conduct research together on the same campus. The Goodmans already were working with teachers and administrators on the Navajo Reservation and in the Tucson Unified School District. With years of their own research and classroom experience to back them up, the Goodmans plunged cheerfully into controversies about education, especially about teaching beginners to read.