Reading Lessons: The Debate over Literacy - Hardcover

Coles, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809064901 ISBN 13: 9780809064908

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Examines how both the phonics and whole language reading instruction methods not only fail to teach children to read and write, but also harm their thinking and behavior patterns

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"Enter Gerald Coles, educational psychiatrist and acclaimed author . . . a rare breed among educational writers and researchers. [He has written] a timely, superbly documented, assertive and informative critique of a controversy that has escalated into a passionate, highly politicized war." --Catherine Hill, "Boston Book Review"

"Gerald Coles makes clear that which so many pundits have spent so long making obscure. In reconnecting literacy to the rest of human social, political, and emotional experience, he makes the kind of real-life common sense that could actually engender dramatic educational change. An important work that trumps the bankrupt terms of most current literacy debate."--Louise Armstrong, author of "And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children"

"[Coles] once again puts truth and the real needs of children ahead of professional interests and controversies. In an indispensable book for anyone who cares about the development and education of children, he focuses on what really matters--the social and economic conditions under which our children live and learn" --Peter R. Breggin, M.D., author of "Talking Back to Ritalin"

Enter Gerald Coles, educational psychiatrist and acclaimed author . . . a rare breed among educational writers and researchers. [He has written] a timely, superbly documented, assertive and informative critique of a controversy that has escalated into a passionate, highly politicized war. "Catherine Hill, Boston Book Review"

Gerald Coles makes clear that which so many pundits have spent so long making obscure. In reconnecting literacy to the rest of human social, political, and emotional experience, he makes the kind of real-life common sense that could actually engender dramatic educational change. An important work that trumps the bankrupt terms of most current literacy debate. "Louise Armstrong, author of And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children"

[Coles] once again puts truth and the real needs of children ahead of professional interests and controversies. In an indispensable book for anyone who cares about the development and education of children, he focuses on what really matters--the social and economic conditions under which our children live and learn "Peter R. Breggin, M.D., author of Talking Back to Ritalin""

"Enter Gerald Coles, educational psychiatrist and acclaimed author . . . a rare breed among educational writers and researchers. [He has written] a timely, superbly documented, assertive and informative critique of a controversy that has escalated into a passionate, highly politicized war." --Catherine Hill, Boston Book Review

"Gerald Coles makes clear that which so many pundits have spent so long making obscure. In reconnecting literacy to the rest of human social, political, and emotional experience, he makes the kind of real-life common sense that could actually engender dramatic educational change. An important work that trumps the bankrupt terms of most current literacy debate." --Louise Armstrong, author of And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children

"[Coles] once again puts truth and the real needs of children ahead of professional interests and controversies. In an indispensable book for anyone who cares about the development and education of children, he focuses on what really matters--the social and economic conditions under which our children live and learn" --Peter R. Breggin, M.D., author of Talking Back to Ritalin

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Praise for Reading Lessons
"Acclaimed author . . . Coles is a rare breed among educational writers and researchers . . . A timely, superbly documented, assertive, and informative critique of a controversy that has escalated into a passionate, highly politicized war." --Catherine Hill, Boston Book Review

"With our nation (and others) in the midst of a longstanding educational--and literacy--crisis, this finely written, rigorously argued book stands as urgent reading not only for educators but for all who care about the fate of future generations."--Publishers Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809064901
• ISBN 13: 9780809064908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212