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Recent cuts to the 2011 federal budget have ended funding for the National Writing Project, an organization I care about deeply. (Full disclosure: For several years it has provided me a part-time job, something most teachers need.)
The National Writing Project received $27 million in 2010 and distributed much of it to more than 200 writing project sites around the country in operating grants of under $50,000.See the full content of this document
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Writing Project Budget Cut Hurts
When I was in my third year of teaching, I participated in the West Virginia Writing Project's Invitational Summer Institute, an intense program of writing, of reading research and teachers' stories of teaching writing, and of design...
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