Literacy

… 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

I am surprised that, to the best of my knowledge, Beth Fertig’s new book, Why Can’t U Teach Me 2 Read? (published by Farrar, Strauus and Giroux), has received so little attention   It is a very good book—well written, fair and even suspenseful in its own way. The book contains