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Sold a Story: Reading Instruction Failures by api-642135715 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The passage summarizes a key battle in the 1990s over how reading should be taught in schools. It describes how the scientific evidence was mounting that phonics instruction was necessary, contrary to the popular "whole language" or "cueing" approach at the time. It outlines how the Bush administration launched a major initiative called Reading First to implement the science of reading in schools, armed with $5 billion. However, powerful advocates of the alternative approach resisted the efforts to change p
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