Achieving State and National Literacy Goals: A Long Uphill Road : a Report to Carnegie Corporation of New YorkTo succeed in post-secondary education or employment, students must emerge from high school possessing high levels of literacy skills that enable them to construct meaning from a variety of texts and convey that meaning to others. Recent reform efforts have yielded positive results in improving reading achievement for the nation's children in the primary grades. However, many children are not moving beyond basic decoding skills, even as they advance to the fourth grade and classes in history, mathematics, and science. To focus national attention on the problem of adolescent literacy, Carnegie Corporation started a new initiative-Advancing Adolescent Literacy: Reading to Learn-the aim of which is to promote policy practice and research in the field of adolescent literacy, which encompasses reading and writing in grades 4 through 12. |
