Reform and Literacy Education

A critical resource for literacy educators and graduate students, this volume investigates key moments in the development of literacy education and provides a much-needed overview of where, when, and how efforts to shape education influence literacy teaching, as well as what literacy educators can do to advocate for themselves, their students, and the profession. Organized around three themes-history, effects, and advocacy-this volume offers a nuanced exploration of the complex issues surrounding literacy education, and suggests coherent approaches to evaluating and understanding the various policies and reform efforts, and their impacts on literacy teaching and learning. Chapter authors draw on a variety of research- and practice-based perspectives to explore the impact of reform on literacy and literacy education, and examine the evolution of literacy education, providing much-needed historical context for shifts in policies and models in the field.

Sarah Hochstetler is Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA.

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