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      Paperback Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science: The Political Campaign to Change America's Mind about How Children Learn to Read Book
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      ISBN: 0814102751

      ISBN13: 9780814102756

      Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science: The Political Campaign to Change America's Mind About How Children Learn to Read

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      How a pack of lies and ideologues hijacked education

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      Bumpy at times, shrill at others, this book is nevertheless a compelling and convincing history of our very recent past. And anyone involved with or concerned about educational reform should read it, alert to the dictum that "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."Taylor documents in excruciating detail the grim story of how a dedicated group of ideologues "reformed" reading teaching in California and...

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      Taylor Reverses Pro-Phonics Spin

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      In Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctor's of Science, literacy researcher and author Denny Taylor examines the pro-phonics legislative campaign afoot in the US, which has the dual goals of controlling how children are taught to read in this country, as well as changing, shaping, and delimiting public and professional discourse on how children learn to read. The book explores the assumptions behind this campaign, as well...

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