Reading Poverty in America

by Patrick Shannon

Book Overview

In this book Shannon's major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling-how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041572273X
• ISBN13: 9780415722735
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"