{"id":8820,"date":"2020-06-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/02\/how-to-end-the-reading-war-and-serve-the-literacy-needs-of-all\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:33:34","slug":"how-to-end-the-reading-war-and-serve-the-literacy-needs-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/how-to-end-the-reading-war-and-serve-the-literacy-needs-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"How to end the reading war and serve the literacy needs of all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45479\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45479\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45479 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/paul-thomas-book-cover-2020-450.jpg\" alt=\"Cover, How to End the Reading War by Paul Thomas\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/450;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas&#8217; book is published by Information Age Publishing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Education Professor Paul L. Thomas has written a new book, &#8220;How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy Needs of All Students: A Primer for Parents, Policy Makers, and People Who Care.&#8221;\u00a0 Thomas, who taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education, says the book &#8220;confronts some of the most compelling but misunderstood aspects of teaching reading in the U.S. while also offering a way toward ending the reading war in order to serve all students, regardless of their needs.&#8221; Read more about the book, published by Information Age Publishing, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/radicalscholarship.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/25\/in-press-how-to-end-the-reading-war-and-serve-the-literacy-needs-of-all-students-a-primer-for-parents-policy-makers-and-people-who-care-iap\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is former column editor for English Journal (National Council of Teachers of English), current series editor for &#8220;Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres&#8221; (Brill\/Sense Publishers), and author of &#8220;Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination: Essays Exploring What &#8216;Teaching Writing&#8217; Means&#8221; (IAP). His teaching and scholarship focus on literacy and the impact of poverty and race on education, as well as confronting the political dynamics influencing public education in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Professor Paul L. Thomas has written a new book, &#8220;How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy Needs of All Students: A Primer for Parents, Policy Makers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,43,74,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-graduate-studies","category-graduate-studies-in-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}