N. Suzanne Standerford has been active in Michigan literacy circles since
the early 1980s, as a member of the Michigan Department of Education
Curriculum Review Committee, an officer in three local reading councils,
and the U.P. coordinator for development and dissemination of the English
Language Arts Content Standards. Dr. Standerford was an elementary
teacher and a reading specialist for nearly 17 years before completing her
Ph.D. at Michigan State University. She has been a professor of reading
education at Northern Michigan University since 1992 and currently
co-directs the Upper Peninsula Writing Project. Dr. Standerford's research
interests are the ways teachers learn to make instructional changes and
the effects of policy decisions on teachers, students, and schools.
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Standerford, N. Suzanne
(2005)
"A Climate of Contradictions: The Shifting Sands of Literacy Reform,"
Michigan Reading Journal: Vol. 37:
Iss.
3, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mrj/vol37/iss3/9
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