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No Child Left Behind’s effect on literacy - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

No Child Left Behind’s effect on literacy - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:
Answer Sheet


No Child Left Behind’s effect on literacy

This was written by P. David Pearson, preeminent literacy researcher and chair of the newly formed International Reading Association Literacy Research Panel.

By P. David Pearson
While it is customary to give three cheers to something that we want to celebrate or commemorate, when I think about the legacy of the last decade of literacy instruction in America’s schools, I can only manage two cheers for No Child Left Behind.
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