TITLE

Adolescent literacy comes of age

PUB. DATE
August 1999
SOURCE
Reading Today;Aug/Sep99, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p1
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Talks about the issue of relative neglect of adolescent literacy. How educators and the public have underestimated the importance of adolescent literacy; Importance of literacy skills; Efforts of the International Reading Association to address the issue of adolescent literacy.
ACCESSION #
2183598

Tags: LITERACY;  INTERNATIONAL Reading Association;  TEENAGERS -- Education

 

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