Literacy
High quality essays written by experts on literacy and education are presented. Essays discuss the rise of literacy rates in the U.S. throughout its history, the reasons for the broad decline of reading in recent years, and educational theories which attempt to improve this trend.
Decline in Reading in the U.S.
The most recent assessment was showed that reading scores were higher in 2007 than in 1992 for grades 4 and 8. However, NCES reported that the average high school students...
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History of Literacy
In the centuries following the invention of written communication, only a small portion of human society learned to read and write. Those who learned to read often held...
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An Overview of Literacy
In recent years, surveys of libraries, newspapers, and magazines have indicated an overall decline in reading among American adults. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an...
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Editor's Choice
Literacy Rates Across the Globe.
Trinidad & Tobago Country Review
A map is presented with information on the literacy rates across the globe.
Promoting Literacy: Resources of the National Institute for Literacy.
Phi Kappa Phi Forum
Provides information on resources of the National Institute for Literacy which aim to promote literacy in the U.S. as of April 2004. Literacy...
Literacy in the Information Age.
Educational Leadership
Considers three categories of literacy in relation to information technology. Discussion on narrative, expository and document literacy; Definition...
Definitions / Perspectives.
Teacher Librarian
Explores the definition of information literacy from various perspectives. Definition offered by the American Library Association Presidential...
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Rewriting "Goldilocks" in the urban, multicultural elementary school
Reading Teacher
This article presents an experimental project on the use of multiliteracies and new technology in the urban elementary school Joyce Public School in...
Patient handouts? We're wasting our time
RN
Discusses the uselessness of printed education materials for patients due to the compounding problem of adult illiteracy. Decrease in reading levels...
Ideas offered for adult literacy programs
Reading Today
Announces the availability of Project Lifelong Learning's video and print materials that identify key strategies for helping adults develop their...
THE STANDARDS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY: TODAY THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, TOMORROW THE WORLD
Technology Teacher
The article presents information on International Technology Education Association's document "Standards for Technological Literacy" (STL). This...
Children and Spiritual Reading
America
The article focuses on the significance of using Catholic literature in character building for school children. The author cites the study done by...
Take Two Poems and Call Me in the Morning (Or Why Teachers Need Poetry)
Encounter
The article presents an author's view on the importance of poetry in education. She describes how poetry heighten the students' feelings of resonance...
For the love of reading
Inside Tucson Business
Reports illiteracy in Tucson schools, Arizona. Partnership of the Rotary Club with Reading Seed and the University of Arizona to build a program to...
Fourth period in Grade 7 literacy workshop: Insights from organizational and management theories
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Argues that literacy workshops are highly organized environments. Features of the six theoretical organizational models; Characteristics of well-...
Stvaranje prijatelja/Making friends: Multimodal literacy activities as bridges to intercultural friendship and understanding
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Focuses on the cross-cultural collaborative literacy project entitled Making Friends, involving U.S. and Bosnian middle school students and their...
Introduction to the special issue on evolutionary educational psychology
Learning & Individual Differences
Introduces a series of articles pertaining to educational psychology, featured in the December 2000 issue of the periodical 'Learning and Individual...
Crossroads to the world
Educational Leadership
Focuses on the impact of the Crossroads to the World educational program on student learning in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Development of curriculum...
Systemic literacy initiatives Stories of regulation, conflict and compliance
Australian Journal of Language & Literacy
This paper problematises the Discourses surrounding systemic whole-school initiatives, and provides some insight into how one rural primary school is...
Drama and the High School Student
Education
The article discusses results of a survey of interests which high school students have in drama for entertainment in the United States. The survey...
Writing place in English: How a school subject constitutes children's relations to the environment
Australian Journal of Language & Literacy
This paper considers the discourses inscribed by children when they write and communicate about the environment, as exemplified in the anthology of...
A LITERACY INDEX FOR THE MAILBAG
Journal of Applied Psychology
A literacy index for predicting the educational level of the writers of public mail was developed on 162 letters sent to the editor of the Boston...
Computer-supported aids to making sense of scientific articles: cognitive, motivational, and attitudinal effects
Educational Technology Research & Development
High school students can access original scientific research articles on the Internet, but may have trouble understanding them. To address this...
Literacy Articles A-Z
- 'It's not all black and white': Postmodern picture books and new literacies
- 'The way I look at the world': Imaginal interaction and literacy use at TeenStreet
- A Curricular and Instructional Challenge: Teaching and Learning for Technological Literacy/Capability
- A Little Financial Education Goes a Long Way
- A medical misunderstanding
- Aboriginal literacy: Reading the tracks
- Adolescent literacy comes of age
- Adult literacy after 1990
- Adult literacy and democratic renewal in the new Scotland
- Adult literacy in Canada, the United States and Germany
- Adult literacy in New Zealand: Issues in policy, practice and biculturalism
- Afterword(s): The Great Variety of Readers
- Alarming literacy?
- An Eight-Point Attack on Illiteracy
- And I read it all by myself!
- Appendix 3: Progress map: Repertoire of Literacy Teaching Practices
- Audiovisual review: Films & videos
- Balanced Literacy
- Book reviews
- Books for adolescents
- Books for youth: Books for older readers
- Call for Manuscripts
- CNE Questions
- Coors `literacy' program impacts many lives
- Creating literacy links
- Critical literacy at work
- Cultural literacy
- Demystifying literacy: Reading, writing, and the struggle for liberation
- Designing Tech-Literacy Centers for 21st Century Students
- Directions for Literacy Research and Education in the Millennium: A Framework for Library Connections
- Do Your Workers Need Literacy Training?
- Early literacy assessment-Thoughtful, sensible, and good
- Editorial Introduction
- Editors' introduction
- Education
- Effective literacy
- Electronics library
- Empowering women and families through literacy in Nepal
- Engineering and Standards for Technological Literacy
- Excluded voices: Class, culture, and family literacy in Scotland
- Family Literacy
- Family, literacy, development and culture: Interconnections, reconstructions
- Fantastic fall set for The Reading Teacher
- From dissemination to discernment: The commodification of literacy instruction and the fostering of "good teacher consumerism"
- From Efficient Decoders to Strategic Readers
- Go online to find literacy resources
- Health Literacy: An Ethical Responsibility
- History of the adult literacy program in Antigua
- Home-School Connections
- HOPEFULLY INTO ILLITERACY (Book)
- How is literacy taught?
- Identity construction in elementary readers and writers
- Imitations of life: Authenticity in classroom literacy events
- Information Literacy (Book)
- INFORMATION LITERACY IN NEW ZEALAND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
- Information literacy: A position paper on information problem solving
- INFORMATION LITERACY: Competency Standards for Higher Education
- Information literacy: The changing library
- Integrating technology with the teaching of an early literacy course
- Intergenerational conversations and two adolescents' multiple literacies: Implications for redefining content area literacy
- International Literacy Day: The tip of the iceberg
- INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON LITERACY RESEARCH
- Introduction: Family literacy
- Is Your Workforce Illiterate?
- Jerry Harste speaks on reading and writing
- Jewish Literacy (Book)
- Joining the video-game literacy club: A reluctant mother tries to join the "flow"
- Journal of Reading offers something for everyone
- just think a media-literacy curriculum that works
- Knowing Literacy: Constructive Literacy Assessment
- L'alphabetisation fonctionelle en Roumanie rurale
- Laubach, LVA announce plans to merge
- Leading the Way to Literacy (Between the Lions Series)
- Learning `the language the presidents speak': Images and issues of literacy in American Indian
- Leisure & Literacy
- Let's not marginalize adolescent literacy
- Lida Cochran, Matriarch of Visual Literacy
- Literacy and Health Are Issues Linked in Many Ways
- Literacy and labeling
- Literacy and literacy training of francophones in Canada
- LITERACY AND SOCIAL CLASS IN ANTIQUITY
- Literacy changes lives
- Literacy Coalition unveils action agenda at special forum
- Literacy for the Girl of Today, the Woman of Tomorrow
- Literacy in a thousand words
- Literacy in American Lives (Book)
- Literacy in Japan: Obstacles and opportunities
- Literacy in postcolonial Malaysia
- Literacy in the Caribbean
- Literacy in the Information Age
- Literacy Lists
- Literacy Rates Across the Globe
- Literacy research in the next millennium: From paradigms to pragmatism and practicality
- Literacy schools
- Literacy status among major predictors of healthiness
- Literacy teams: Sharing leadership to improve student learning
- Literacy With an Attitude (Book Review)
- Literacy
- Literacy: A family affair
- Living a literate life
- Looking for critical literacy with postbaccalaureate content area literacy students
- Low Literacy
- LVA completes rally to promote literacy
- LVC-NC releases literacy report card
- Making literacy a family affair
- Making literacy real for 'high-risk' adolescent emerging readers: An innovative application of readers' workshop
- Media and cultural studies in Australia
- Media Smarts
- MEDIA-SAVVY KIDS
- Media: Video
- Mixing old technologies with new
- Money matters
- Moral Literacy
- Nancy Larrick
- New avenues to literacy
- New Environmental Book Emphasizes Critical Thinking
- news
- Paris hosts Literacy Day celebration
- PEOPLE
- Perspectives on world literature
- Poverty and reading age
- Principles for literacy assessment
- Programs help adult learners
- Project provides network
- Promoting Literacy: Resources of the National Institute for Literacy
- Questioning development: Introduction to Special Issue
- RAN targets a nation's needs
- RAP celebrates literacy
- Real literacy in a school setting: Five-year-olds take on the world
- Reflecting on Literacy in Education (Book)
- Religion and Science: Worldviews Collide
- Reviews
- Reviews: Nonfiction
- Reviews: Professional
- Scholastic offers help for nonprofit literacy organizations
- Schoolwide literacy days
- Science Literacy, The Hard Way
- Secondary Instruction: Does Literacy Fit In?
- Seventeen, self-image and stereotypes
- Shorter notices
- Special themed issue: Re/mediating adolescent literacies
- Staniec heads literacy prog
- Strategies to support balanced literacy approaches in pre- and inservice teacher education
- Surfing companion
- Teach employees about money
- Teachers of literacy, love of reading, and the literate self: A response to Ann Powell-Brown
- Television and metaphors of literacy
- Test Yourself!
- Test Yourself
- Testing your religious literacy
- Tex Education
- The ABCs of Workplace Literacy
- The caregiver's role in emergent literacy
- The dynamics of literacy lessons An introduction to In Teachers' Hands: Effective Literacy Teaching Practices in the Early Years of Schooling
- The elusive art of NGO literacy
- The face in the mirror, the person on the page
- The future of work and the work of the future
- The Impact of Accreditation and Distance Education on Information Literacy
- The Literacy Hoax
- The Magnavox Experience
- The Mission of Literacy USA
- The political economy of literacy in the Third World
- The social and economic costs of low levels of literacy
- Third Sector
- Tips for structuring workplace literacy programs
- To the Editor
- Toward a critical pedagogy of popular culture: Literacy development among urban youth
- Toward a New Definition of Literacy
- Toward a technology for assessing basic early literacy skills
- Traditionalism versus functionality in adult literacy education
- UK agency wins IRA Literacy Award
- Understanding the dimensions of biological literacy
- Untitled
- Video reviews
- Viewpoint
- Vocabulary in Context
- Voice of Literacy podcasts launched
- What Can We Learn From Cuba's National Literacy Campaign?
- What is literacy? Acquiring and using literacy skills
- What they see is what we get: Television and middle school writers
- What's hot, what's not for 1998
- Whither the future of quantitative literacy research?
- Whole language was not the problem: Phonics was not the cure
- Women and development
- Women and literacy: A quest for justice
- WOMEN IN LITERACY GRANTS
- Women's literacy in worldwide perspective
- Women's literacy: A curriculum of assertion, resistance, and accommodation
- Word Analogies
- Workplace literacy as a contested site of educational activity
- Workplace Literacy Problems: Triangulating on Potential Hot Spots
- WR Test Yourself!
- Writing travelers' tales on New Literacyscapes
