http://radio.weblogs.com/0111803/categories/literacy/ en Copyright 2002 Chicago Library System Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:04:18 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Radio UserLand v8.0.8 ross@chilibsys.org ross@chilibsys.org 60 http://radio.weblogs.com/0111803/categories/literacy/2002/09/27.html#a119 <P><STRONG><EM>A Look At Literacy in the US:</EM></STRONG></P> <P>"<A href="http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue24/literacy.shtml">"They're in the last row, wearing a look that al ...</A>. - "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."<BR><BR>"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 <A href="http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue24/literacy.shtml">Literacy in America</A> - a 3 part article, from <A href="http://www.bookmagazine.com">Book Magazine</A>)" [<A href="http://www.librarystuff.net/">Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen</A>]</P> <P>This long article shows where the US is in the war on illiteracy and what educators are doing about it.&nbsp; Thanks to <A href="http://www.librarystuff.net/">Library Stuff</A> for the link</P> http://radio.weblogs.com/0111803/categories/literacy/2002/09/27.html#a119 Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:01:28 GMT Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen