In an effort to provide intervention for struggling adolescent readers, schools are turning increasingly toward computer-assisted reading intervention programs. This case study analyzes the perceptions, and contradictions, that exist between students, teachers, and administrators of the intervention tools used at one urban middle school. The…

This article examines Reading Recovery as a microcosm for issues related to race and access. Tenets of critical race theory are presented to explore how racial biases are systemic in our ways of being, teaching, and conducting research. Specifically, I present data for African American children involved in Reading Recovery in one Midwestern…

Analyzes how and why upper-middle-class children did not receive reading remediation during a summer program designed for this purpose. Explores reasons that people may resist (covertly or overtly) while simultaneously helping to sustain a particular set of social relations, institutional practices, and ideological legitimations. (CMG)