Talking Points is published by WLU, the Whole Language Umbrella, a conference of NCTE. Talking Points helps promote literacy research and the use of whole language instruction in classrooms. It provides a forum for parents, classroom teachers, and researchers to reflect about literacy and learning. (Published semiannually, October and May.)
Current Editor:
Carol Gilles,
University of Missouri, Columbia Contact: TalkingPoints@missouri.edu
Incoming Editors (beginning fall 2013):
Sally Brown, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro
Deborah MacPhee, Illinois State University
Contact: TalkingPoints@georgiasouthern.edu
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"Supporting our students as they embark upon such bold journeys has always been one of the most central facets of whole language pedagogy. This was true when I began teaching in the early 1970s and remains true today."
—Rick Meyer [page 29]