Product Description: This is a book about knowledge for teaching reading and for evaluating first graders' performance. It describes HOW teachers actually teach reading. The book uses ethnographic research and cross-national comparisons to make visible elements of teaching culture that are usually taken for granted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Ten case studies of schooling reforms are used to illustrate the debate between sociology's world culture theorists and educational anthropologists.