Selected Publications
(For complete list of publications, please see the faculty member's curriculum vitae.)

Articles
Dutro, E. (2010). What ‘hard times’ means: Mandated curricula, middle-class assumptions, and the lives of poor children. Research in the Teaching of English, 44, 255-291. (the journal is published by the National Council of Teachers of English)

Dutro, E. (2009). Children Writing ‘Hard Times’: Lived Experiences of Poverty and the Class-Privileged Assumptions of a Mandated Curriculum. Language Arts, 87, 89-98.

This is an electronic version of an article published in:
Dutro, E. (2008). “That’s why I was crying on this book”: Trauma as testimony in children’s responses to literature. Changing English, 15, 423-434.
Changing English is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.

Dutro, E. (2008). Boys reading American Girls: What’s at stake in assumptions about what boys won’t read. In R. Hammett & K. Sanford (Eds), Boys, Girls, and the Myths of Literacies and Learning (pp. 69-90). Toronto: CSPI/Women’s Press.

Dutro, E., Kazemi, E, Balf, R., & Lin, Y. (2008). ‘What are you and where are you from?’ Race, identity, and the vicissitudes of cultural relevance in an urban elementary classroom. Urban Education, 43, 269-300.

Dutro, E., & Zenkov, K. (2008). Urban students testifying to their own stories: Talking back to deficit perspectives. 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 172-218.

This is an electronic version of an article published in:
Dutro, E., Kazemi, E., Balf, R. (2006). Making sense of “The Boy Who Died”: Tales of a struggling successful writer. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 22, 325-356.
Reading and Writing Quarterly is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.

Dutro, E., Kazemi, E., & Balf, R. (2005). The aftermath of "You're only half": Multiracial identities in the literacy classroom.  Language Arts, 83(2), 96-106. Copyright (2005) by the National Council of Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org/. Used with permission.

Dutro, E. (2004). Book review: The handbook of discourse processes. Journal of Literacy Research, 36(4), 273-282.

Dutro, E., & Valencia, S. (2004). The relationship between state and district content standards: Issues of alignment, influence and utility.  Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(45), 1-49.

Dutro, E. (2003). "Us boys like to read football and boy stuff": Reading masculinities, performing boyhood.   Journal of Literacy Research, 34(4), 465-500.

Dutro, E., Fisk, M. C., Koch, R., Roop, L. J., & Wixson, K. (2002). When state policies meet local district contexts: Standards-based professional development as a means to individual agency and collective ownership.  Teachers College Record, 104(4), 787-811.

Dutro, E. (2001/2002). ‘But that's a girls' book!' Exploring gender boundaries in children's reading practices. The Reading Teacher, 55 , 376-384.

Book Chapters
Wixson, K. K., Dutro, E., & Athan, R. G. (2003). The challenge of developing content standards.   In R. E. Floden (Ed.), Review of research in education (pp. 69-107). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.