Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education
Spies, Saboteurs, and Saints
Author: Robert B. Cooter
An exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The text grew out of The Dallas Reading Plan - a five-year initiative between area business and corporate interests, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District.
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An exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The text grew out of The Dallas Reading Plan - a five-year initiative between area business and corporate interests, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District.
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An exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The text grew out of a five-year initiative known as The Dallas Reading Plan - a 50 million dollar collaborative effort between area business and corporate interests, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District. Features include: an analysis of systemic reform factors from the varied viewpoints of key stakeholders (such as change management experts, university scholars, school leaders, teachers, and educational researchers) involved in the improvement of urban literacy education in a major school district; concise reporting on the effects of long-term teacher development programmes built upon scientific research; quantitative and qualitative research data on the improvement of teacher performance in literacy instruction gathered over a five-year period.; a candid analysis of behaviours that can enhance, restrain and/or destroy systemic reform efforts in urban settings; insights into the benefits of principal training as part of creating effective school-wide literacy programmes; and data showing that previously ineffective teachers can become effective literacy educators through deep and sustained professional development.
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Robert B. Cooter
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Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education: Spies, Saboteurs, and Saintsis an exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The book grows out of a five-year initiative known as The Dallas Reading Plan--a $50 million collaborative effort between area business and corporate interests, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District. Audiences include university professors and graduate students in reading/literacy education, educational leadership, special education, urban studies, and change management theory, school board members, business and community leaders, classroom teachers, parents, and those concerned with the status of literacy education in urban settings.
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