A September 21 post to YALSA's listserv:
According to a new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, adolescent literacy is a cornerstone of the current education reform movement, upon which efforts such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) should be built.
The capstone report of the Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy, Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Readiness (108 pages, PDF), notes that although U.S. students in grade four score among the best in the world in reading achievement, by grade ten they score among the lowest in the world. To combat this trend, the report recommends that the U.S. education system give teachers literacy-focused instructional tools and formative assessments, encourage schools and districts to collect and use information about student literacy performance more efficiently, and call upon state-level leaders to maximize the use of limited resources for literacy efforts in a strategic way. The report can be accessed at http://carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Main.pdf
Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy, a companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act, focuses on the specific skills and literacy support needed for reading in academic subject areas in higher grades. The report outlines strategies for teaching content knowledge and reading strategies together. It can be accessed at http://carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Lee.pdf
According to a new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, adolescent literacy is a cornerstone of the current education reform movement, upon which efforts such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) should be built.
The capstone report of the Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy, Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Readiness (108 pages, PDF), notes that although U.S. students in grade four score among the best in the world in reading achievement, by grade ten they score among the lowest in the world. To combat this trend, the report recommends that the U.S. education system give teachers literacy-focused instructional tools and formative assessments, encourage schools and districts to collect and use information about student literacy performance more efficiently, and call upon state-level leaders to maximize the use of limited resources for literacy efforts in a strategic way. The report can be accessed at http://carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Main.pdf
Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy, a companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act, focuses on the specific skills and literacy support needed for reading in academic subject areas in higher grades. The report outlines strategies for teaching content knowledge and reading strategies together. It can be accessed at http://carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Lee.pdf
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