Toward an Agenda for Urban Literacy: The Study of Schools Where Low-Income Black Children Read at Grade Level.

McPhail, Irving P.

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Toward an Agenda for Urban Literacy: The Study of Schools Where Low-Income Black Children Read at Grade Level.

McPhail, Irving P.

Reading World, v22 n2 p132-49 Dec 1982

Contains an assessment of the inner-city literacy crisis, a critique of rationales for reading failure based on "deficit" and "difference" type ideologies, a call for the study of successful inner-city schools, an evaluation of G. Weber's study of successful inner-city schools, and the development of an urban literacy agenda. (FL)

Descriptors: Administrator Role, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Leadership, Literacy, Low Income Groups, Parent Participation, Reading Achievement, Reading Failure, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Success, Teacher Role, Urban Education

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Language: English

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