A Look At Literacy in the US:
""They're in the last row, wearing a look that al .... - "They're in the last row, wearing a look that all teachers know, one that says, "I'm invisible. I have nothing to say. Don't call on me." They don't have their books. They didn't read the assignment: They forgot; they had to work; it was just too boring."
"Take Paul. (Students' names have been changed.) A few weeks into his first semester at Dixon High School in Dixon, California, everyone had him pegged as a dropout. "He was totally silent, wouldn't make eye contact," says his freshman English teacher, Lisa Krebs. "If I made a seating chart that put him in the middle, he moved himself to the back. If I said, 'Pick a partner,' he would sort of not pick one and hope I didn't notice." (from Literacy in America - a 3 part article, from Book Magazine)" [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen]
This long article shows where the US is in the war on illiteracy and what educators are doing about it. Thanks to Library Stuff for the link
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