[NLA] basal reading texts - phonics

[Gail Spangenberg]

Colleagues, A professional colleague and friend here in NYC sent me 
this note and said that I could pass it around if I wanted to:


"As a former employee of educational publishers and friend of many 
still engaged in that business, I can assure you that McGraw-Hill 
reacts to whatever the market wants when it publishes/revises it's 
basal reading programs. I have a feeling that it has swung away from 
whole language and back toward phonics by now. But when it's time to 
do a new edition, the staff will study the calls for adoption from 
Texas and California and try to produce a program that exactly 
matches the requirements of each state."
-- 
Gail Spangenberg
President
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
1221 Avenue of the Americas - 50th Fl
New York, NY 10020
212-512-2362, fax 212-512-2610
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