Reviews elementary school teachers' reliance on commercial reading materials and suggests, as an objective factor for their teacher behavior, their belief that greater managerial control over classroom instruction will solve the problems of reading programs. Traces the evolution of this assumption and discusses its ramifications. (FL)

Focusing on managing reading instruction related to the range of differences in the classroom, this paper includes a historical review of managing instruction beginning with examples from the 1800s. It offers a selective review of the literature on managing reading instruction and explores the following: (1) studies of organizational plans such as…