Reading Poverty

by Patrick Shannon

"Poverty has everything to do with schooling-how it is theorized, how it is organized, how it runs." So says author Patrick Shannon in this provocative look at how social, political, and economic contexts inform the literacy education field. Here we see how competing representations of poverty underlie our assumptions about IQ testing, textbook content, national standards, standardized achievement tests, volunteerism, school/business partnerships,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325000174
• ISBN13: 9780325000176
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 8