Robyn Ewing, Jo Padgham, David Hornsby, and friends have recently created the “Foundation for Learning and Literacy.”

At its heart are 11 “touchstones for effective literacy teaching.” https://foundationforlearningandliteracy.info/foundation-touchstones/

My commentary on each follows.

The 11 touchstones consist in either feel-good truisms, half-truths, or outright falsehoods. Here are my initial thoughts:

If these 11 touchstones form the basis for the newly created "Foundation for Learning and Literacy," the Foundation is on shaky grounds indeed.