Videos

 

Videos

V. Rethinking Struggling and Diverse Adolescent Readers: Instructional and Policy Implications for Content Area Reading

Date: 
June 22, 2007
Carol D. Lee
Professor of Learning Sciences and African American Studies, Northwestern University

V. Rethinking Struggling and Diverse Adolescent Readers: Instructional and Policy Implications for Content Area Reading

Date: 
June 22, 2007
Carol D. Lee
Professor of Learning Sciences and African American Studies, Northwestern University

Area Reading

Date: 
June 22, 2007
Carol D. Lee
Professor of Learning Sciences and African American Studies, Northwestern University

II. Reading and Writing in the Content Areas: The Heart of Secondary School Reform

Date: 
June 12, 2007
Cynthia L. Greenleaf
Codirector, Strategic Literacy Initiative, WestEd

I. Introducing Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas, a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education

Date: 
June 12, 2007
Bob Wise
President, Alliance for Excellent Education and Former Governor, West Virginia

Listen to What Students Are Saying About High Schools:

What if kids ran for Congress? How would they integrate reading into their campaign platform? Students from Philadelphia and Baltimore address the question.. "If I were a Congressman, I would..."

Listen to What Students Are Saying About High Schools2:

Students from Philadelphia and Baltimore talk about why reading is important to them, what books they are currently reading and some of their favorite books.

Listen to What Students Are Saying About High Schools3:

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Students discuss the frustration they felt when they realized they were not receiving the reading help that they needed in middle school. When they reached high school, they found themselves reading several grade levels behind their peers.