Introduction / Paula Wolfe and Leslie Poynor
Relatively speaking: McCarthyism and teacher-resisters / Carole Edelsky
The push of the pendulum / Bess Altwerger
Who gets to play? How and why reading researchers were left out of the No Child Left Behind Act / Sharon Matthews
Warning: current federal education policy may be hazardous to your health / Steve Strauss
Making whole language disappear: how the National Reading Panel worked its magic / Joanne Yatvin
Phonics, literalism, and futuristic fiction: religious fundamentalism and education policy / Ellen Brinkley and Constance Weaver
Not in the script: the missing discourses of parents, students, and teachers about success for all / Kyle D. Shanton and Teresa C. Valenzuela
Unelected policymakers: conservative think tanks and education / Eric Haas
Bilinguaphobia in the new millennium / Chris Faltis and Cathy Coulter
Cracks in the wall? Initiating actions against federal policy / Richard J. Meyer ... [et al.]
Where do we go from here? / Leslie Poynor and Paula Wolfe.