Reading Against Democracy
Subtitle: The Broken Promises of Reading Instruction
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: February 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780325009766
Subjects: History; Literacy; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Philosophy Of Education; Reading Education (General); Education; Education / Teaching; Literacy programs; Reading; United States
Description: Patrick Shannon's Broken Promises was hailed by Language Arts as one of nine seminal references on literacy and inequality in education. But so much has changed, and worsened, since its publication that instead of revising his classic Shannon has written an almost entirely new book. The result, Reading Against Democracy, is Shannon's fully documented, up to date, look at how businesses and political interests broke the promise that American education would teach students how to think, read, and write as citizens.