Stop the Pendulum - Public Policy Personal Experience in Reading Instruction Reform

This is a book about the struggles over reforming reading instruction and the corresponding effort to improve reading achievement in the United States over the last seven decades.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Teaching Reading 1955-1983: Instructional Disputes, Federal Involvement, and the Roots of Reform
Chapter 3: Experiences: Teaching Reading in Urban and Rural Settings, 1968-1978
Chapter 4: Teaching Reading 1983-2008: Reading Policy Takes Center Stage
Chapter 5: Experiences: A Thirty-Year Career in Teacher Education, 1983-2013
Chapter 6: Policy and the Personal: What We Learned from Seven Decades of Reading Instruction and Reform
References
About the Authors

About the author

By William D. Bursuck and Craig Peck

Summary

This is a book about the struggles over reforming reading instruction and the corresponding effort to improve reading achievement in the United States over the last seven decades.

Product details

• Authors: William D. Bursuck, William D. Peck Bursuck, Bursuck William D., Craig Peck
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781475863918
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6391-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Educational strategies & policy, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Languages other than English, Educational: first/native language: reading & writing skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics