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#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think

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Jack Schneider: We have lived through a very similar moment before, and yet almost no one, no one recalls it. He says Nick Christoff recently wrote about this in his New York Times column. The bad news is that for the past 30 years, many American schools clung to an educational approach known as balance literacy. Schneider: So you know, once again, the historians lament must be cried.

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