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2018
Volume 113, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Abstract

Secondary English language arts teachers need to reclaim the complex and true stories of literacy as a resistance to the “science of reading” movement and new reading legislation across the US.

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