Topic 2: Politics: Reading First and NCLB

Topic 2: Politics: Reading First and NCLB; Common Core, Close Reading; State reading policies, 3rd-grade retention

Retain to Impede: When Reading Legislation Fails (Again)

New Criticism, Close Reading, and Failing Critical Literacy Again

First, Do No Harm: That Includes the Media

Assorted posts on Common Core

Web page analysis

NCLB

NRP http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/

IRA’s Summary of the NRP Report http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/reports/nrp.html

NRP Five Components of Reading Instruction

http://www.scsk12.org/scs/subject-areas/kweb/images/nationalreadingpanel_faq.pdf

Yatvin, J. (2002). Babes in the woods: The wanderings of the National Reading Panel. (Located athttp://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0201yat.htm)

Reading First http://www.ed.gov/programs/readingfirst/index.html

Reading First audit

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/aireports/i13f0017.pdf

USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-22-reading-audit_x.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-04-15-textbooks-congress_N.htm

Krashen website http://www.sdkrashen.com/

Krashen, S. (2006). Did Reading First work? 

Edmondson, J. (2004). Reading policies: Ideologies and strategies for political

engagement. The Reading Teacher, 57(5), 418-428.

Fuller, B., Wright, J., Gesicki, K. & Kang, E. (2007). Gauging growth: How to judge No

Child Left Behind? Educational Researcher, 36(5), 268-278.