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Curriculum Case Study: How a New, Tougher (and Free) Language Arts Program Built Around ELL Supports Improved Literacy in a Town at the Foot of the Great Smoky Mountains

Lenoir City Intermediate/Middle School students studying To Kill a Mockingbird. (Photo courtesy of Knowledge Matters Campaign)

By Brandee Hoglund

February 11, 2020

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Brandee Hoglund is principal of Lenoir City Intermediate/Middle School in Lenoir City, Tennessee.

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