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ERIC Number: EJ547179
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
A Political Critique of Remedial Reading Programs: The Example of Reading Recovery.
Dudley-Marling, Curt; Murphy, Sharon
Reading Teacher, v50 n6 p460-68 Mar 1997
Uses the example of Reading Recovery to examine how remedial reading programs can function to preserve the status quo by protecting the structures of schooling, which so effectively serve the needs of some students better than others and thus so effectively restrict access to social goods to members of dominant groups. (SR)
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Politics of Education, Reading Programs, Remedial Reading, Sociocultural Patterns
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Institutional Discrimination; Reading Recovery Projects