Reform and Literacy Education

Foreword by Peter Smagorinsky Part I: History 1. An Argument for Practice-Based Evidence in Reading Education 2. The National Writing Project: The Heart and Soul of a Reform that Works 3. Fiction or Reality?: The Reciprocity of School Film Literacy Representations and Educational Policy, 1955-2017 4. Limiting EL Students to a Monolingual Education: A Movement of Failure Part II: Effects 5. How Close is Too Close? The Ethics of Reading and Neoliberal Education Reform 6. The Effects of High-Stakes Testing: A Narrowing of Student Writing 7. The Impact of Portfolio Based Performance Assessments on the Development of Preservice Literacy Teacher Reflection 8. The "Real World" of Schooling: The Market as Ethic in Education Practice and Policy Part III: Advocacy 9. "Tell Them I Can Do This Test in Spanish": Re-envisioning Literacy Assessment Practices for Young Bilingual Learners 10. Teacher as Advocate for Social Justice: Integrating Advocacy into the Theory and Pedagogy of Literacy Education 11. "You Can’t Just Wave a Flag in This Place": Using Social Justice Literacies for Reform 12. Preservice Teacher Inquiry into Histories of Education Reform and Advocacy in Clinical Sites 13. Finding the "Brave Spaces": Reclaiming Teacher Professionalism