| Description |
iv, 195 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Who's afraid of whole language? politics, paradigms, pedagogy, and the press / Kenneth S. Goodman -- It's a long story-and it's not done yet / Carole Edelsky -- What's religion got to do with attacks on whole language? / Ellen H. Brinkley -- California reading : the pendulum swings / David Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman -- We'll eat the elephant one bite at a time : the continuing battle for control of literacy education in Texas / Linda Ellis -- Mandating methodology : promoting the use of phonics through state statute / Frances R. A. Paterson -- Phonics, whole language, and the religious and political right / Constance Weaver and Ellen H. Brinkley -- Thirty years of research in reading : when is a research summary not a research summary? / Richard I. Allington and Haley Woodside-Jiron -- Sky is falling : whole language meets Henny Penny / Sharon Murphy -- Whole language as decoy : the real agenda behind the attacks / Bess Altwerger -- Organizing for political action : suggestions from experience / Ellen H. Brinkley and Constance Weaver. |
| Subject |
Reading -- Language experience approach.
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Education -- Political aspects
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Reading -- Language experience approach -- Religious aspects.
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Education and state.
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| Added Author |
Goodman, Kenneth S.
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| Added Title |
What teachers need to know about the "reading wars" |
| ISBN |
1571100865 (alk. paper) |
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