Florida School Boards Association
In Beyond Fiction, we outlined why devoting instructional time to informational reading was as important to building literacy skills as reading fiction texts— a fact that was made all too clear in international benchmarks and national surveys which showed American adults performing abysmally on document or informational literacy. How to help adults who lack these basic…
While we’re on the subject of what today’s students need to be successful in the future, the University of Chicago’s Consortium on Chicago School Research recently released a comprehensive review of what research, policy and practice have identified as crucial elements of a child’s development and growth into a mature, productive and thriving adult. Read…
Much is known about the tools high school graduates need to do well in college (Adelman, 1999 and 2006; Hull, 2010; Klepfer & Hull, 2012). We know much less about the impact of high school on career readiness, however. This study looks at the credentials and high school experiences of non-college going high school graduates…