Reading Education Policy

Introduction
Patrick Shannon

Reading Policies: Ideologies and Strategies for Political Engagement
Jacqueline Edmondson

Section 1: Policy-Driven Work

Policy Studies
John T. Guthrie

The Current State of Quantitative Research
Michael L. Kamil

When Less May Be More: A 2-Year Longitudinal Evaluation of a Voluteer Tutoring Program Requiring Minimal Training
Scott Baker, Russell Gersten, Thomas Keating

The National Reading Panel Report
James W. Cunningham

Books Aloud: A Campaign to “Put Books in Children's Hands”
Susan B. Neuman, Donna C. Celano

Looking Inside Classrooms: Reflecting on the “How” as Well as the “What” in Effective Reading Instruction
Barbara M. Taylor, Debra S. Peterson, P. David Pearson, Michael C. Rodriguez   FREE!

Taking Seriously the Idea of Reform: One High School's Efforts to Make Reading More Responsive to All Students
William G. Brozo, Charles H. Hargis   FREE!

Behind Test Scores: What Struggling Readers Really Need
Sheila W. Valencia, Marsha Riddle Buly

Section 2: Policy Communications Concerns

Literacy Research in the Next Millennium: From Paradigms to Pragmatism and Practicality
Deborah R. Dillon, David G. O'Brien, Elizabeth E. Heilman

Can Teachers and Policy Makers Learn to Talk to One Another?
Cathy A. Toll

Barriers to Litearcy for Language-Minority Learners: An Argument for Change in the Literacy Education Profession
Rachel A. Grant, Shelley D. Wong   FREE!

What Can We Expect From a National Assessment in Reading?
Robert E. Shafer

High-Stakes Testing in Reading: Today in Texas, Tomorrow?
James V. Hoffman, Lori Czop Assaf, Scott G. Paris

The International Reading Association Responds to a Highly Charged Policy Environment
Cathy M. Roller

The Voices of Researchers: Conflict and Consensus in Reading Research and Policy
Claude Goldenberg

Educators Influencing Legislators: Commentary and the Kentucky Case
Shirley C. Raines

Section 3: Critical Policy Action

Asking Different Questions: Critical Analyses and Reading Research
Jacqueline Edmondson

The Use of Commercial Reading Materials in American Elementary Schools
Patrick Shannon   FREE!

Other Countries' Literacies: What U.S. Educators Can Learn From Mexican Schools
Patrick H. Smith, Robert T. Jiménez, Natalia Martínez-León

The Train Has Left: The No Child Left Behind Act Leaves Black and Latino Literacy Learners Waiting at the Station
Deirdre Glenn Paul

Beyond Remediation: Ideological Literacies of Learning in Developmental Classrooms
Eric J. Weiner

Hog Farms in Pennsylvania
Patrick Shannon

Literacy and the Other: A Sociological Approach to Literacy Research and Policy in Multilingual Societies
Allan Luke

Conclusion
The Policy Culture of Reading Education and Research: Places We Might Go
Jacqueline Edmondson