Always Learning

Themes of the Times for Literacy (Valuepack item only)
M. Kristiina Montero

ISBN-10: 0205549160
ISBN-13:  9780205549160

Publisher:  Allyn & Bacon
Copyright:  2008
Format:  Paper; 112 pp
Published:  06/01/2007
Status: Out of Print


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Available as a value-package, this collection of 46 New York Times articles provides students with real-world information about literacy. 


Table of Contents

I. LITERACY FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

1. How to Make 21,000 Classroom Libraries

2. Santiago de Cuba Journal: In Book-Starved Cuba, Little Feasts for the Hungry

3. Poverty Forces New Methods for Educating Turkish Youth

4. A Nation Challenged: Rights The Women, Veils Shed, Demonstrate

5. Cuba Leads Latin America in Primary Education, Study Finds

6. After the War: The Librarian Books Spririted to Safety before Iraq Library Fire

7. Suutarila Journal: Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of Literate Children

8. Lingua Franca? Yes, It’s English Seeking the American Way, Immigrants Fill

Language Courses

9. Miami-Dade School Board Bans Cuba Book

10. African Languages Grow as a Wikipedia Presence

 

II. MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL LITERACY

11. One Language One Day, a Second One the Next

12. Lesson: The Voters’ Prerogatives and Bilingual Education

13. Two Families, Two Cultures and the Girl Between Them

 

III. LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY

14. Lessons in the School of Cut and Paste

15. Toy Story: Looking for Lessons

16. Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital

17. New Bronx Library Meets Old Need: High-Tech Now, but Still Serving Immigrants

 

IV. LITERACY AND THE STANDARDS, STANDARDIZED TESTS, AND IMPROVING STUDENT PERFORMANCE

18. Lessons: There’s More to Reading than Phonics

19. Gains Found for the Poor in Rigorous Preschool

20. Teaching By the Book, No Asides Allowed

21. Repetition + Rap = Charter School Success

22. Lessons: National Test Is Out of Tune with Times

23. Lessons: A Tricky Matter of Balance of Standards and Exams

24. Education: Test. Test. Test. Did You Say Test?

25. City Is Converting Reading and Math to Uniform Course

26. New York’s New Approach

27. Education: Now, Standardized Achievement Tests in Head Start

28. 4-th Grade Successes to 8th-Grade Disappointment: Tests’ Meaning Questioned

29. Doubling Up on Literacy Classes

30. English Scores Drop Sharply in 6th Grade

31. Early Repairs in Foundation for Reading

 

V. LITERACY AND THE EDUCATION OF MINORITIES

32. Few Minorities Get Best High School Diplomas

33. City’s Schools Cut Racial Gap in Test Scores

34. Special Education and Minorities

35. No Child Left Behind? Hardly

 

VI. LITERACY AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE/EMERGENT LITERACY

36. At Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Exploring the Serious Work That Is Play

37. 350 Years of What the Kids Heard

38. In the Schools: Bookworms Made, If Not Born

39. The Arts May Aid Literacy, Study Says

40. Young Ears Tune Into Theater on Radio

41. Literacy: At These Readings, Listeners Growl for More

 

VII. ADOLESCENT AND ADULT LITERACY

42. A Teacher Who Helps the Many Become One

43. In Cities, a Battle to Improve Teenage Literacy

44. Home Front: Can’t Read, Can’t Write, Can Hide It

45. The Power of the Adolescent Pen

46. Labeling: Nutritional Information Leaves Many Uninformed



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