Willis, Arlette Ingram

Reading comprehension research and testing in the U.S. : undercurrents of race, class, and power in the struggle for meaning / Arlette Ingram Willis - New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008 - xxxii, 374 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-361) and indexes

Western European philosophical foundations of reading comprehension research and testing -- Ideological and philosophical foundations of reading comprehension research and testing -- Reservoir of themes and premises : social influences of early concepts of reading comprehension -- Producing early reading comprehension research and testing -- World War I and the development of reading comprehension and research testing -- Reproducing and producing reading comprehension research and testing -- Reading comprehension research and testing reinvents itself -- Federal involvement in reading comprehension research and testing

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