Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy

Table of contents

• Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools - The Real War on Literacy *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments x
• Chapter One - Introduction 1
• References *
• Chapter Two - Relatively Speaking: Mccarthyism and Teacher-Resisters 11
• References *
• Part One - The Players 29
• Chapter Three - The Push of the Pendulum 31
• References *
• Chapter Four - Who Gets to Play? How and Why Reading Researchers Were Left Out of the No Chud Left Behind Act 51
• References *
• Chapter Five - Warning: Current Federal Education Policy May Be Hazardous to Your Health 63
• References *
• Part Two - The Influence of Federal Policy 79
• Chapter Six - Making Whole Language Disappear: How the National Reading Panel Worked Its Magic 81
• References *
• Chapter Seven - Phonics, Literalism, and Futuristic Fiction: Religious Fundamentalism and Education Policy 93
• References *
• Chapter Eight - Not in the Script: the Missing Discourses of Parents, Students, and Teachers About Success for All 111
• References *
• Part Three - The Media 133
• Chapter Nine - Unelected Policymakers: Conservative Think Tanks and Education 135
• References *
• Chapter Ten - Bilinguaphobia in the New Millennium 151
• References *
• Part Four - Toward Liberatory Education 165
• Chapter Eleven - Cracks in the Wall? Initiating Actions Against Federal Policy 167
• References *
• Chapter Twelve - Where Do We Go from Here? 185
• References *
• Author Index 197
• Subject Index 203

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