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Nancy Ragno is one of three authors of the highly successful World of Language, a K-8 language arts series, published by Pearson Scott Foresman. First published in 1988 as Silver Burdett English, the series has gone through two major revisions and is still in print today. For the past twenty years Ragno has worked as a freelance writer of educational materials for developmental houses and publishers, including Houghton Mifflin, Silver Burdett, J.B. Lippincott, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Prentice Hall. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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