… all children develop an image of their niche in the adult world – in the ecological sense of niche.  Their ideas about the ecology of adult `places’ may be distorted and usually pitifully partial.  However, they seem to work out notions of their basic future and of the trajectory relevant to it, even if […]

The literacy litany has become all too familiar and all too much taken for granted.  Prevailing notions concerning “literacy” and “illiteracy” rely on assumptions that the lack of literacy precludes self-sufficiency, results in low self-esteem, costs society untold sums of money and promotes social irresponsibility.  (I have put the two key words in quotation marks […]

DATE: January 11, 2001 TO:  See list below FROM: John Garvey RE: Literacy Development of High School Students ______________________________________________________________________________ I am writing to invite you to a meeting to discuss the current status of literacy education in New York City’s high schools and to discuss the possibility of developing a comprehensive and integrated approach to expanding and […]