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ERIC Number: EJ348973
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Don't Blame the System: Constraints on "Whole Language" Reform.
Clarke, Mark A.
Language Arts, v64 n4 p384-96 Apr 1987
Argues that if education for language development is to improve, the changes will have to take place in the classroom and that the change needed is to return control of classrooms to teachers. Also argues that for reform to endure, how systems respond to change must be understood. (SRT)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Literacy Education, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Role, Teacher Supervision, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Whole Language Approach
Note: Thematic Issue: Issues That Divide Us.