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Title:

Big brother and the national reading curriculum : how ideology trumped evidence / Richard L. Allington, author/editor.

Publisher:

Heinemann,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

viii, 304 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

National Reading Panel (U.S.)
Reading--United States.

Other Authors:

Allington, Richard L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Why we don't need a national reading methodology / Richard L. Allington. The National Reading Panel report : a review / James W. Cunningham -- Why the National Reading Panel's recommendations are not enough / Michael Pressley ... ... [et al.] -- Beyond the smoke and mirrors / Elaine M. Garan -- More smoke and mirrors / Stephen Krashen -- Babes in the woods / Joanne Yatvin -- Can teachers and policy makers learn to talk to one another? / Cathy A. Toll -- The politics of phonics / Frances R.A. Paterson -- Decodable text in beginning reading / Richard L. Allington ; Haley Woodside-Jiron -- Explicit and systematic teaching of reading : a new slogan? / Brian Cambourne -- The will of the people / Jacqueline Edmondson ; Patrick Shannon -- Accelerating in the wrong direction / Richard L. Allington -- Why we don't need a national reading methodology / Richard L. Allington.

Summary:

Reading researcher Richard Allington tracks and questions the thirty-year campaign that has focused on testing, accountability, and federalization of education. He and other educators, including Jim Cunningham, Michael Pressley, Elaine Garan, and Patrick Shannon, have contributed articles that provide an overview of past and recent federal education policies, including the National Reading Panel Report and associated legislation and policy making, with analyses of the premises of the new national reading plan. By showing how these premises are manufactured -- that is, not reliably supported by the research -- they explain why this plan is an unwarranted federal encroachment into local educational decision making. Allington's closing argument calls for a shift away from federal education policies that the record shows are proven failures. He warns that the ideological push we are experiencing today for a national reading curriculum is just the tip of the iceberg. This, he contends, is the sort of top-down management that is undermining the very strengths of our public education system.

ISBN:

9780325005133 (alk. paper)
0325005133 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50042672

LCCN:

2002009620

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)