Sunday, July 24, 2011

Asking for a Miracle: Implementation of Effective Literacy Instruction

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This will be my last blog entry. Overall, the theme of my blog was a questioning of the ways in which effective literacy instruction can ...

Through the Lenses of Many: Appreciating Multiple Literacy Practices

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Part I Critical literacy (CL) is a response to injustice and the production of illiteracy in which students and teachers work together to ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

I'm Not Buying It! No Sale, Not Ever!

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“So you’d like me to go from being an outstanding teacher to a mediocre one?” (Gatto, 2007, pg. 73).   When teacher Lynn Gatto begins he...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Literacy in the 21st Century: Arithmetic, Writing, and Civil Rights

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Developed in response to the established and accepted status quo in American society, critical literacy theory proposes that students em...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

ROMANCING THE TWEEN

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When I first looked at the title of Jane Stanley’s article, “Practicing for Romance: Adolescent Girls Read the Romance Novel,” I initiall...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Is What's Fair to Some Fair to All?

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In each of the readings this week, we explored the ineffectiveness of the   “sameness as fairness” educational approach and read about...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"---George Bush, 1/11/00

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  From an academic standpoint, i.e. looking solely at the results of tracking and assessment in American schools, I agree with this statemen...