With increased attention to teacher quality and student achievement, it's important to have an understanding of literacy policy and to envision how teachers might teach literacy differently in the future. In this book, Jacqueline Edmondson addresses key questions of critical policy study to provide understanding about how and why literacy is taught in particular ways. The reader will feel empowered by the real-life stories that bring teachers' voices to the forefront of literacy issues. This book contains the following six chapters: (1) Getting Started: Developing Understanding of Policy and Policy Study; (2) Exploring Questions of Policy Origin: Looking Back to Move Forward; (3) The Chain Gang: Sustained Silent Reading in Scientific Times: (4) Working for A Schooling: The Consequences of Business Models in student's and Teachers' Lives; (5) On the Way to Somewhere Else: Moving Through Literacy Lessons in a Rural Elementary School; and (6) Policy Study and Policy Action: What Might Teachers Do? Policy-Related Resources for Further Study are appended. An index is included.