This book addresses critical issues related to pre-adolescent and adolescent literacy learners with a focus on closing the achievement gap. Despite efforts by educators and policymakers during the past several decades, certain groups of students - primarily African American students, English language learners, and students from low-income homes--continue to underperform on commonly used measures of academic achievement. Too often, teachers and administrators lack both proper preparation and good ideas to confront these issues.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Language And Literacy .

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Teachers' College Press .

Michael R. Strickland is the editor of "Poems That Sing to You, "an anthology of poems about music, published by Boyds Mills Press. He lives in Orange, New Jersey.