Reviews

"This manifesto comes not a moment too soon. Curt Dudley-Marling offers a spirited defense of teacher educators rooted in the reasons they choose to teach. Those in the trenches will greatly appreciate the fresh ammunition he provides." - Anthony Cody, Author of Educator and Oligarch "In this feisty volume, Curt Dudley-Marling provides a robust defense of an educational approach that is shockingly out of fashion in the policy world: a meaning-centered education that is irreducible to standardized test scores. Never afraid to stick his head in the lion's mouth, he takes on many of the best-funded conservative, market-oriented educational observers (they are never participants) and refutes their dubious assumptions about the purpose of education and the preparation of teachers." - Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of English Education, The University of Georgia "Preparing the Nation's Teachers to Teach Reading: A Manifesto in Defense of "Teacher Educators Like Me" should be required reading for everyone preparing to teach children to read, everyone currently teaching children to read, everyone who knows a child who is being taught to read, everyone who makes policy about teaching children to read. In short, everyone." - Carole Edelsky, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University