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When it comes to teaching, educators can move beyond memorization and equip students with the tools they need for fluent, confident reading.

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If things had gone just a bit differently, James Howells might today be as rich as the Queen of England. The decisive moment, he now thinks, occurred one evening in August, 2013, when he was ...

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