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Alfred W. Tatum – Reading Teacher, 2024
Discussions and practices focused on Black boys' literacy development and equity in U.S. classrooms require serious thought and interrogation if the aim is to move these boys toward advanced levels of reading, writing, intellectual development, and human development. Sorely, Black boys have become subjects of educational, programming, and policy…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Literacy, Literacy Education
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Yoto; Marsono; Agus Suyetno; Puteri Ardista Nursisda Mawangia; Achmad Romadin; Paryono – Cogent Education, 2024
This research focuses on Indonesia's newly introduced "Merdeka" (Independent) curriculum for vocational schools (VSs), emphasizing the crucial involvement of the industry in aligning, executing and evaluating the curriculum. The study utilizes a combination of qualitative analysis through a multicase design and quantitative insights…
Descriptors: Industry, Role, Vocational Schools, Curriculum
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Ballenger, Cynthia – Reading Teacher, 2019
The achievement gap has been the focus of a good deal of research, attention, and hopeful new practices, yet it has hardly decreased. Using insights from sociolinguistic and sociocultural studies of classrooms in concert with practices developed by teacher researchers in the tradition of the Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar, the author…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Sociolinguistics, Learner Engagement
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Goodwyn, Andy – English in Education, 2022
This article reviews Margaret Meek Spencer's body of work in relation to the various policies that she critiqued from the Bullock Report in 1974 to the National Literacy Strategy in 2004. She analysed increasingly conservative moves to promote a dominant, elitist version of school literacy. A Critical Realist perspective aligns with Margaret Meek…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Political Attitudes, Independent Reading, Intellectual Development
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Massey, Carolyn; Wiggin, Paul – Teaching History, 2018
Discussions with sixth-form students about reading led Carolyn Massey and Paul Wiggin to start a sixth-form reading group. They describe here the series of themed sessions that they planned, and the student discussion and reflections that resulted. Listening to their students discuss their reading led Massey and Wiggin to reflect on what is meant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Instruction, Youth Clubs
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Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi; Donahue, Patricia – College English, 2012
A question that captured our attention many years ago and continues to motivate our work, although the audience for that work has expanded and contracted over the years, is "What about reading?" In this essay we adopt a term used to frame discussion at the 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)--remix--to revisit in three…
Descriptors: College English, Conferences (Gatherings), Intellectual Disciplines, Classification