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Anyone who is inclined to think that the " Reading Wars " are over, or that the main warriors in these wars are only professional educators and researchers who support either whole language or phonics approaches to reading will continuously rethink their views during the reading of Reading across International Boundaries: History, Policy, and Politics. Openshaw and Soler have compiled a collection of essays that makes visible the ignored warriors in the literacy debates—the policy planners and " policy entrepreneurs, " to borrow a term from Hall, who have found their places on the frontline of the battlegrounds with the power of dominance as their weapon of choice. A central theme of this book is that the politicization of literacy in public debates has consistently shown itself to be the winning warrior. Ironically, though, none of the warriors has been able to achieve one of the major 'stated' objectives of the war—the removal of performance gaps between mainstream and non‐mainstream students.