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#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think

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The State's Transition to Reading Instruction

Then governor George W. Bush had made phonics intensive reading instruction a hallmark of his time as governor. Now he was about to take his plan national. Jim Hoffman is a professor of language and literacy at the University of North Texas. He says that to make sense of the scale of the state shift on reading instruction during the Bush years, we have to consider how Texas handles textbooks.

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