Promising Practices for Urban Reading Instruction - Softcover

For courses in Urban Literacy and Reading. As the reading profession faces the challenge of high-stakes testing and standards-based curricula, it is essential that administrators, teachers, and teacher educators who plan and implement reading programs in urban settings have a professional development resource that speaks directly to urban education and diversity. This collection is that resource, showing what works-or what has the promise of working-in urban settings.

Pamela A. Mason is Elementary Principal at Tucker School, Milton Public Schools, Milton, Massachusetts, USA. Jeanne Shay Schumm is Professor and Chair in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.