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Download full textKirschner, Becky M. – Educational Horizons, 2004
In the early 1980s, the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) revised its policies on reading instruction. A new transactional definition of reading shifted the emphasis from discrete reading skills to comprehension and set out objectives consistent with that new definition. Policymakers also revised the state?s reading-evaluation instruments,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, State Standards, Academic Standards, Reading Motivation
