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"The Only Reason I Read" And Other Apologies: A Roadmap For Increased Pleasure Reading In The High School, Anne Smith
"The Only Reason I Read" And Other Apologies: A Roadmap For Increased Pleasure Reading In The High School, Anne Smith
The Graduate Review
Recent trends in adolescents’ reading habits suggest that as students enter middle and high school, their interest as well as their engagement in pleasure reading decreases. Educators and administrators alike are concerned by the statistics, which suggest that readers are lost early in their formal education. Many studies correlate low levels of reading to lower performance on academic tasks as well as decreased economic success in adulthood. Conversely, studies correlate higher levels of reading, especially daily reading, to substantial academic gains as well as increased economic success. Many educators have attacked the problem of losing readers during their adolescent years …
Faculty In Print - Beyond The White Negro: Empathy And Anti-Racist Reading, Kimberly Chabot Davis
Faculty In Print - Beyond The White Negro: Empathy And Anti-Racist Reading, Kimberly Chabot Davis
Bridgewater Review
Excerpt from Kimberly Chabot Davis, Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
Living With Harry, Ann Brunjes
Read To A Child And Change The World, Dorothy Famolare
Read To A Child And Change The World, Dorothy Famolare
Undergraduate Review
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