Literacy

If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have higher school dropout and absence rates, and more c...

The ways in which the African American community learned to be proficient readers and writers during the 19th century were diverse, however, the gr...

Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theo...

As colleges and universities have responded to the demand of businesses and industries for graduates who can write effectively, Composition Studies...

The Shakers' spiritual literacies, defined through an examination of their reading and writing practices, blur boundaries between traditionally mas...

This is an original and scholarly study of the role of books and libraries in British prisons during the period of penal reforms between 1700 and 1...

This volume is a how-to guide to the use of computers in library-based adult literacy programs. Since the commitment to literacy training has becom...

The issues of literacy and illiteracy have made their presence felt in every country of the world. Anyone who has explored these issues quickly com...

From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U.S. women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companio...

This unique book describes literacy programs that take place in contemporary workplaces and explores their consequences for the employees (especial...

This book is the first comprehensive history of how the American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the moder...

This book examines emergent literacy as the foundations for language instruction and seeks to relate the work of those doing research on literacy a...

This book explores Guided Inquiry Design®, a simple, practical model that addresses all areas of inquiry-based learning and sets the foundation for...

Reading and writing skills were once confined to only a few people. Today, a person facing problems with acquiring literacy skills will run the ris...

An exploration of the fascinating and controversial history of girls' education in America from the colonial era to the computer age. Girls and Lit...

The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded wit...

When researchers in computer-mediated communications discuss digital textuality, they rarely venture beyond the now commonplace notion that compute...