Download or read book Resisting Reading Mandates written by Elaine M. Garan and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthermore, her book reveals the true findings of the NRP's report on commercial programs and isolated phonics instruction and the strong financial links that are connected to its "science." As Dick Allington says in the foreword to this book, improving teaching and learning in the real world of schools and classrooms is difficult enough without government-sponsored misallocation of effort and funding."--Jacket.