Twentieth Century Reading Education: Understanding Practices of Today in Terms of Patterns of the Past

by Gerard Giordano

This book examines twentieth century reading education. Among the major educational issues reviewed are testing, diagnosis, individualized education, textbooks, readability, multiculturalism, bi-lingualism, disability, and technology. The book explores attempts by educators and psychologists to answer theoretical as well as practical questions about why only some students developed literacy skills. It examines the efforts to prevent reading failure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762306602
• ISBN13: 9780762306602
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 6.1"