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Letters to the Editor: Readers applaud the return of phonics, but teaching reading shouldn't stop there
Sadly, at that time, as New York state adopted a balanced language approach to teaching reading, California politicians chose ...
Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes
California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...
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Review: Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in The Return, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes plus reviews of The Return and French drama ...
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They All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now?
“The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” the letter proclaimed. While it acknowledged that such threats have often ...