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Peer reviewedShannon, Patrick; Crawford, Patricia – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Describes how basal readers manufacture reading failures among students from less-privileged economic and social backgrounds. Reviews the history of reading instruction in the United States. Calls for educators to speak out against reading practices that protect the privilege of the upper and upper-middle classes by encoding their values and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Educational History, Elementary Education, Literacy
