In increasingly technological economies around the world, workers need to be able to read and write complex material. Yet demographic changes - resulting in minority languages and cultures, some without family traditions of literacy, and poverty persisting from generation to...
A review of the progress in helping students overcome obstacles to literacy This book looks at how schools and communities have been working to help students with literacy issues. Bridges to Literacy: Children, Families and Schools examines the effects of factors, such as demographic...