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The book
Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education: Spies, Saboteurs, and Saints discusses the factors that contribute to improving literacy instruction in large urban school districts. It is based on a five-year initiative called The Dallas Reading Plan, which was a collaborative effort between businesses, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District. The intended audience includes university professors and students in various fields, school board members, business and community leaders, teachers, parents, and anyone interested in the state of literacy education in urban areas.
Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education: Spies, Saboteurs, and Saints is an exploration of the variables that contribute to the improvement of literacy instruction in large urban school districts. The book grows out of a five-year initiative known as The Dallas Reading Plan--a $50 million collaborative effort between area business and corporate interests, philanthropy, and the Dallas Independent School District.
Audiences include university professors and graduate students in reading/literacy education, educational leadership, special education, urban studies, and change management theory, school board members, business and community leaders, classroom teachers, parents, and those concerned with the status of literacy education in urban settings.
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