Rethinking Literacy Education: The Critical Need for Practice-Based Change

?This book is challenging, useful, insightful, authoritative, andhopeful--one that every adult literacy education policy and programleader, researcher and practitioner should read. With this work,Allan Quigley has made a first-rate contribution to our field.?(Jean H. Lowe, director, GED Testing Service)

?Quigley's perspective on adult literacy is fresh and provocative.Rethinking Literacy Education impels adult literacy professionalsto reconsider what they are doing and why.? (Hal Beder, professor,department of educational theory, policy, and administration,Rutgers)

?Valuable in encouraging literacy practitioners to be moreproactive in challenging misguided public policy and damagingliteracy rhetoric.? (Elisabeth Hayes, associate professor,department of continuing and vocational education, University ofWisconsin-Madison)