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Heinemen Books - The Politics of Teaching Reading
In the early 2000s, as the battle was heating up over Bush's reading first program, Heinemen published books with titles like Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum. Lucy Cawkins told The Washington Post in 2002 that the government wanted publishers to make programs that tell teachers what to do. And she said, of course, it is big business. In defense of our children, when politics, profit, and education collide, reading forprofit leaves kids behind.
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