Education

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

… 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

Introduction We have been reminded more than a few times over the past three days that there is no literacy with a capital L.  There are instead practices, more or less elaborate and codified, which reflect and shape the social relationships of their practitioners.  [1]  We have also heard that

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