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Peer reviewedWarren, John H. – Reading Horizons, 1988
Traces the literary treatment of causes and symptoms of reading disabilities through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Points out several concepts which are changing the earlier diagnostic-remedial role of classroom teachers. (ARH)
Descriptors: Educational History, Reading Consultants, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
McPhail, Irving P. – 1979
Perhaps the most controversial and provocative issue in the discussion of reading failure in inner-city schools has been the relationship between Black English Vernacular (BEV), reading failure, and reading instruction. The debate has focused on the degree to which BEV does or does not interfere with the acquisition of reading/language arts…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Classroom Communication, Communication Problems
Peer reviewedMcPhail, Irving P. – Reading World, 1982
Contains an assessment of the inner-city literacy crisis, a critique of rationales for reading failure based on "deficit" and "difference" type ideologies, a call for the study of successful inner-city schools, an evaluation of G. Weber's study of successful inner-city schools, and the development of an urban literacy agenda. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Leadership
