Challenging expectations: Why we ought to stand by the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 540-547

  Faust, Mark A ^a   Kieffer, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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