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October 1999 | Volume 57 | Number 2

Redefining Literacy


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Perspectives / Literacy—The Pressure Is On

Carol Tell

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Numeracy: The New Literacy for a Data-Drenched Society

Lynn Arthur Steen

From health care to housing, from welfare to weather, statistics bombard us. The editor of Why Numbers Count describes what numeracy is and how to teach it.

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Science Literacy for All in the 21st Century

George D. Nelson

The science literate among us today are in the minority. The director of Project 2061 talks about how to reverse that trend.

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Technology and Literacy: Raising the Bar

Decker Walker

Within one generation, we will expect educated people to have mastered dominant technologies and to learn new ones quickly.

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Literacy in the Information Age

Cathleen D. Rafferty

What is "information literacy"? How many ways to retrieve information do students need to know?

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Learning About Learning to Read: A Conversation with Sally Shaywitz

Marcia D'Arcangelo

A neuroscientist and professor of pediatrics discusses brain structures that affect reading, reading disabilities, and gender differences in reading.

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Whole Language Works: Sixty Years of Research

Harvey Daniels, Steve Zemelman and Marilyn Bizar

Far from being a recent innovation, Whole Language is a venerable, comprehensive pedagogy.

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Redefining the Reading Wars: The War Against Reading Researchers

Rona F. Flippo

Reading instruction is not an either/or proposition, reading researchers agree.

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Literacy Standards for Preschool Learners

Elena Bodrova, Deborah J. Leong and Diane E. Paynter

Which instructional techniques are appropriate for preschoolers, and which are not?

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Junior Great Books: Reading for Meaning in Urban Schools

Anne Wheelock

This approach spurs inner-city youngsters to become enthusiastic and thoughtful readers of serious literature.

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Every Child Will Read—We Guarantee It

Craig Wheaton and Stephen Kay

Their promise: Every child will read by the end of 2nd grade. No excuses.

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TRALEs to Literacy

Carol H. Walker and Frank R. Yekovich

Classrooms organized as theaters, art galleries, video stores, and post offices provide authentic environments where literacy skills matter.

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Information Literacy Skills and the Senior Project

Alice O'Grady

New graduates will need new skills—from perusing an online catalog to recognizing quality information.

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Latino Families Learning Together

Jorge P. Osterling, Emma Violand-Sánchez and Marcela von Vacano

Building on the tradition of "Saturday schools," these programs promote bilingual family literacy.

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Gaining the Arts Literacy Advantage

Laura Longley

A new national study of offers examples of schools that have effectively improved arts education.

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New Texts, New Tools: An Argument for Media Literacy

J. Lynn McBrien

How do we help students become discerning customers of information in a media-saturated world?

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Research Link / Improving the Reading Skills of Adolescents

John H. Holloway

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Betsy Lindeman

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