In our quest to move every child ahead, we have fallen behind, lost our way as a profession. In our all-out national effort to improve the quality of teaching and learning literacy, we have compromised some of our most enduring principles and practices. The time has come to reverse this trend and to restore the ecology of literacy instruction to a healthier state.
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