Reading comprehension research and testing in the U.S.
Subtitle: undercurrents of race, class, and power in the struggle for meaning
By: Arlette I. Willis.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780805850529
Subjects: Reading comprehension -- Research -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.; Reading comprehension -- Ability testing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.; Discrimination in education -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Western European philosophical foundations of reading comprehension research and testing; title: Ideological and philosophical foundations of reading comprehension research and testing; title: Reservoir of themes and premises : social influences of early concepts of reading comprehension; title: Producing early reading comprehension research and testing; title: World War I and the development of reading comprehension and testing; title: Reproducing and producing reading comprehension research and testing; title: Reading comprehension research and testing reinvents itself; title: Federal involvement in reading comprehension research and testing.