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Peer reviewedHuck, Charlotte – New Advocate, 1998
Shares a letter the author (a professor emeritus of Language Arts education) wrote to her state assembly member in California in response to legislation, based on a very limited definition of reading, that imposed the use of phonics on school districts. Notes that the letter can serve as a model for other educators to respond to their legislator.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Legislators, Letters (Correspondence)
