Description: Teachers today are in a stranglehold as a glut of mandates and standards restrict our ability to make decisions in our own classrooms.
Brief description:
Dr. Elaine Garan is an award-winning researcher and educator with 24 years of experience as a reading teacher. She is the author of Resisting Reading Mandates (Heinemann, 2002) and several articles on reading. She has seen education from all sides, as a parent, teacher, researcher, university professor, and grandparent who is looking to her granddaughter's future. She can be reached at elainegaran@hotmail.com.
Review Quotes: "Just as students need pencils and books, literacy educators will come to depend on Resisting Reading Mandates: How to Triumph with the Truth. In this accessible and well-documented book, Elaine Garan provides teachers with the answers they so desperately need as they struggle to set the record straight about the work of the National Reading Panel."-Shelley HarwayneSuperintendent of New York School District #2