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More on the reading wars . . .  other voices added.

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Valerie Strauss <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/valerie-strauss/>
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Oct. 30, 2018 at 3:00 a.m. MST

The larger point is that the conflict is a waste of time, and I suspect
most people know it.
Professor Daniel Willingham on the "reading wars"

Why the 'reading wars' are a waste of time - The Washington ...
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:15 PM Bob Dykstra <bolo19 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I honestly don't remember, which is true of a lot of things these days,
> but I tend to think the term was used perhaps in reviews and commentary
> about Flesch's book.
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> Bob Dykstra
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> On 01/20/2021 1:14 PM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> I am going to add *Bob Dykstra* to this thread.  He might know whether
> the term Reading Wars was commonplace in the literature around the time
> they started the First Grade Studies in the early 1960s.
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> David
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:54 AM David P. Reinking <
> David.Reinking at uga.edu> wrote:
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> An N-gram search for “reading wars” doesn’t answer the question precisely,
> but may narrow the search.  Some fledgling bumps appear on the graph (using
> only American English) in the mid 1960s.  Of course, things really spike in
> the early 1990s.  Using that resource, I found this 1969 example that may
> reinforce P David’s speculation that the phrase’s origins may relate to
> Flesch’s work.
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> Does anyone know who coined the term "Reading Wars" or a reference for a
> source that might suggest the first use of this term?
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> Thanks
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> Norm
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> Norman Stahl
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