Shannon writes:
•“…social, economic,
and political circumstances, and
the public’s fascination with business, science, and behavioral psychology, have enabled advocagtes of the scientific management position to dominate American reading lessons since the 1920’s through the nearly universal use of commercially prepared basal reading materials” (Patrick Shannon, (1990) The
struggle to continue: Progessive reading
instruction in the United States, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann