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Edmondson, Jacqueline; Shannon, Patrick – Reading Teacher, 2002
Traces the rationale for removing Sustained Silent Reading from reading instruction as implied by the Reading First initiative. Suggests that no one is accepting responsibility. Notes the authors are apparently out of step with their teaching because they recommend and use many practices that have not been validated by studies conducted by the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Politics of Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research