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2018
Volume 114, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Abstract

This article continues an overview of the “science of reading” story, focusing on media misrepresentations of balanced literacy and whole language, the National Reading Panel, teacher education and the LETRS program, grade retention, cognitive science, and dyslexia.

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