Reading: Policy, Politics, and Processes (Hc)

ISBN-13: 9781593118549 Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc. Publication date: 11/19/2007 Pages: 236 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) The past decade saw heightened policy activism in the field of reading at both the federal level and across virtually all 50 states. Initially sparked by disagreements about methods for teaching children to read, the so-called "reading wars" stirred heated debates on a variety of issues: levels and trends of reading achievement, pedagogy, standards and assessment, and education equity, among others. Embedded within these debates were the political agendas of state executives and legislatures, the interests of advocacy groups, and the ideologies of reading professionals, which were collectively shaping state reading policy development. Drawing primarily on interviews with 366 policy actors from nine states, this book presents a comprehensive investigation of the state reading policy domain employing multiple theoretical frameworks an