The wasted years
Subtitle: American youth, race, and the literacy gap
By: James McCabe.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Literacy -- Government policy -- United States; Reading (Secondary) -- United States; Minorities -- Education (Secondary) -- United States
Notes: "A ScarecrowEducation book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Xeroxed worksheets, withheld textbooks, wealthy PTA's and classroom libraries; title: Chancellor Rudy Crew and a new literacy initiative; title: "Are they worried I am going to steal?"; title: What drives current literacy practices in high schools?; title: Can new experimental high schools socialize teenagers at the beginning of high school?; title: What are teenagers being asked to read; title: Are suburban schools closing the reading gap: the experiences of one suburban county in Maryland; title: Alternatives-communicating with parents; title: The California experience: can standards lift the state's public schools off the bottom?; title: Improving the capacity of teachers-the experiences of three states; title: What does the research say about reading?; title: Private school literacy practices; title: Successful practitioners and the quality of reading; title: The fork in the road and volume of reading; title: Summer reading: what should be done?; title: Can we have a crumb from the table? parents as supplicants in the political process; title: The political position of teachers; title: Loosely latched doors and teacher training; title: Is state intervention effective? failed schools and state intervention in New York, New Jersey, Maryland and California; title: The lure of investing new money into old environments: the New York State experience of 1984 to the present; title: Measuring reading programs: what should the researchers be doing?; title: Clinton to the rescue?; title: What about the Republicans?