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Marketing fear in America's public schools : the real war on literacy

Title
Marketing fear in America's public schools : the real war on literacy / edited by Leslie Poynor and Paula Wolfe.
Publication
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Poynor, Leslie.
  • Wolfe, Paula M.
Description
xi, 207 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Education and state > United States
  • Education > Political aspects > United States
  • Conservatism > United States
  • Mass media and education > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Paula Wolfe and Leslie Poynor -- Relatively speaking: McCarthyism and teacher-resisters / Carole Edelsky -- The push of the pendulum / Bess Altwerger -- Who gets to play? How and why reading researchers were left out of the No Child Left Behind Act / Sharon Matthews -- Warning: current federal education policy may be hazardous to your health / Steve Strauss -- Making whole language disappear: how the National Reading Panel worked its magic / Joanne Yatvin -- Phonics, literalism, and futuristic fiction: religious fundamentalism and education policy / Ellen Brinkley and Constance Weaver -- Not in the script: the missing discourses of parents, students, and teachers about success for all / Kyle D. Shanton and Teresa C. Valenzuela -- Unelected policymakers: conservative think tanks and education / Eric Haas -- Bilinguaphobia in the new millennium / Chris Faltis and Cathy Coulter -- Cracks in the wall? Initiating actions against federal policy / Richard J. Meyer ... [et al.] -- Where do we go from here? / Leslie Poynor and Paula Wolfe.
Call Number
JFE 05-4409
ISBN
  • 0805847030 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0805847049 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004050672
OCLC
55633933
Title
Marketing fear in America's public schools : the real war on literacy / edited by Leslie Poynor and Paula Wolfe.
Imprint
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Poynor, Leslie.
Wolfe, Paula M.
Research Call Number
JFE 05-4409
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