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THE PRACTICE: Having Students Interact with Each Other and with Text
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Content Presented By:
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Center for Resource Management (CRM)
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The Education Alliance at Brown University
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The Policy
Adolescent Literacy: A Position Statement
http://www.reading.org/pdf/1036.pdf
Position paper by the International Reading Association (IRA) Commission on Adolescent Literacy (1999) asserts that the ongoing literacy development of adolescents is just as important, and requires just as much attention, as that of beginning readers. The Association believes that adolescent readers have a right to support in seven specific areas outlined in the document.
Promising Futures: A Call To Improve Learning For Maine's Secondary Students
http://www.state.me.us/education/cse/csees.htm
Executive Summary August, 1998
This Maine Department of Education Commission on Secondary Education report to Commissioner Albanese recommends an ambitious approach to learning that takes as its goal the attainment of the Maine Learning Results for all Maine youth. Its purpose is to generate creative, student-responsive, and forward-thinking instruction and school organization. The report invites readers, first, to think about six Core Principles that, in the Commission's judgement, lie at the heart of all secondary educational planning and practice. Second, it recommends two sets of Core Practices, one addressing learning and teaching activities and one addressing how the school functions to support these learning and teaching practices. Finally, Promising Futures recommends steps that policy-makers and leaders beyond the school can take to encourage and support secondary school improvement.
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