Reading instruction

Reading instruction is the most legislated area of education and the most frequently referenced metric for measuring educational progress.

Trajectories of policy issues

This book traces the trajectories of policy issues with direct implications for literacy teaching, learning, and research in order to illustrate the dynamic relationships between policy, research, and practice as they relate to perennial issues such as: retention in grade, remediation, intervention, instruction for English learners, early literacy instruction, coaching, and leadership.

Use of policy documents and research

Using policy documents and peer-reviewed articles published from the 1960s to the present, the editor and authors illustrate how issues were framed, what was at stake, and how policy solutions to persistent questions have been understood over time.

Linking scholars and research

In doing so, the book links a generation of scholars with research that illustrates trajectories of development for ideas, strategies, and solutions.