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Product Description: In this book Shannonâs major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schoolingâhow it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations of each...read more
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9780415722728 | Routledge, March 21, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: In this book Shannonâs major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schoolingâhow it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs.
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9780415722735 | Routledge, March 17, 2014, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: In this book Shannonâs major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schoolingâhow it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs.
Product Description: "We open up the Common Core State Standards process and product, revealing that both are constructions-partial and value laden. With this understanding, we hope readers will step forward to take active roles in the discussion of why CCSS as well as how CCSS...read more
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9780325048765 | 1 edition (Heinemann, August 29, 2013), cover price $23.75 | About this edition: "We open up the Common Core State Standards process and product, revealing that both are constructions-partial and value laden.
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9780807752425 | Teachers College Pr, July 22, 2011, cover price $27.95
Product Description: Petroleum Geology of Ireland provides a comprehensive review of the petroleum geology of Ireland and its very extensive continental shelf. The authors chart the fifty-year history of petroleum exploration in Ireland, from early drilling onshore to the present frontier exploration in the deep water Atlantic basins...read more
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9781906716134 | Dunedin Academic Pr Ltd, January 1, 2011, cover price $164.00 | About this edition: Petroleum Geology of Ireland provides a comprehensive review of the petroleum geology of Ireland and its very extensive continental shelf.
Product Description: Recipient of a "Moms' Choice" Silver Award"Viva Cisco" is a trilogy of funny stories for kids at the Age 10-13 reading level. All three tales unfold in a land called Topopootl, which lies in a hidden valley deep in the heart of Mexico...read more
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9781432730376 | Outskirts Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recipient of a "Moms' Choice" Silver Award"Viva Cisco" is a trilogy of funny stories for kids at the Age 10-13 reading level.
Product Description: Thoughtful teachers, chafing at restrictions and mandates, are asking themselves, âHow did it come to this?â Patrick Shannon's book provides fascinating, thoroughly-researched answers, with an empowering perspective and a hopeful path out of this current nonsense...read more
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9780325009766 | Heinemann, February 13, 2007, cover price $36.88 | About this edition: Thoughtful teachers, chafing at restrictions and mandates, are asking themselves, âHow did it come to this?
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9780872075689 | Intl Reading Assn, January 17, 2005, cover price $35.95
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9781571431028 | Rdr Books, June 15, 2004, cover price $16.95
Product Description: "Unless, like Rip Van Winkle, you have been asleep for the last decade, you are aware that literacy education is political." So wrote Patrick Shannon more than a decade ago in the introduction of Becoming Political. At that time, Shannon was worried about teachers' political naivete...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780325003382 | Heinemann, September 19, 2001, cover price $55.63 | About this edition: "Unless, like Rip Van Winkle, you have been asleep for the last decade, you are aware that literacy education is political.
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9780325002439 | Heinemann, January 9, 2001, cover price $23.13
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9780325000176 | Heinemann, March 31, 1998, cover price $32.50
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9780805825305 | Routledge, February 1, 1998, cover price $33.95
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9780415919142 | Routledge, October 1, 1997, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.
Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415919135 | Routledge, September 1, 1997, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.
Product Description: What can dropping a ping-pong ball down a pant leg tell us about the social class and ethnic tracking in public schools? How can a cab ride during a blizzard in New York City project another rationale for schooling? When do children's questions about flying whales on videotape suggest new ways to teach literacy? Using stories from his everyday life, Patrick Shannon student, teacher, and parent--challenges traditional thinking about learning, literacy, and life...read more
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9780435081201 | Heinemann, August 21, 1995, cover price $25.63 | About this edition: What can dropping a ping-pong ball down a pant leg tell us about the social class and ethnic tracking in public schools?
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9781878450609 | Richard C Owen Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $19.95
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9780435087012 | Heinemann, May 1, 1992, cover price $24.00 | also contains Stanley Garage Storage Solutions
Product Description: In "The Struggle to Continue" Patrick Shannon describes the underlying philosophies and practices of alternative literacy programs...child centered teaching and critical literacy...in American schools today. Starting with a Quincy, Massachusetts, classroom in the 1880s and moving through this century with examples from other classrooms and other places, he examines teachers' ideas and practices in an historical context, a point of view that demonstrates that advocates of alternative literacy teaching need not reinvent the theory and inspiration for their struggle...read more
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9780435085346 | Heinemann, September 13, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In "The Struggle to Continue" Patrick Shannon describes the underlying philosophies and practices of alternative literacy programs.
Product Description: The book has more fire--more `call to arms' gusto--than anything I've read on reading education. Richard Abrahamson, University of Houston Broken Promises is an important and powerful book precisely because it provides the opportunity for us all to experience the kinds of insights and construct the kinds of understandings that we need to grow professionally and to be a profession...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780897891615 | Bergin & Garvey, January 1, 1989, cover price $102.95 | About this edition: Shannon argues that a combination of psychology, science, and capitalism has transformed reading from a means of personal and social empowerment into an ability to perform well on tests and has transformed learning from a human transaction between teacher and student into an exchange between things--commercially packaged reading materials--and students.
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9780897891608 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The book has more fire--more `call to arms' gusto--than anything I've read on reading education.
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9780675202602 | Merrill Pub Co, February 1, 1985, cover price $59.00
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