Agnes M. Burns Curriculum Specialist, Brookfield, CT Introduction Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, America’s public schools have been challenged to demonstrate “…the four principles of President George W. Bush’s education reform plan: stronger…
Critical Literacy: A Literature Review
Cara M. Mulcahy, Central Connecticut State University Critical literacy is a mindset; a way of viewing and interacting with the world. It is not merely a method or an approach to the teaching of literacy or the language arts. Much…
Intergenerational Journal Buddies and Cross-Age Tutoring: Connections Worth Making
Adrienne Chasteen Snow CARR Scholarship Research Report In this study, nine high school juniors and seniors enrolled in a remedial reading course designed to enhance their literacy skills were paired up with sixteen kindergarten students in a cross-age intergenerational dialogue…
Writing to Learn: The Effects of Summary Writing and Learning Log Strategies on Achievement in and Attitude Toward Biology Among Ninth Grade Students
Carol Tempest CARR Wirth-Santoro Scholarship Research Report The purpose of this study was to determine the effects selected writing-to-learn approaches would have on secondary high school students’ achievement in and attitudes toward biology. Previous studies have found that writing to…
Matching Children With Texts: A Study of Parental Knowledge
Antoinette Fornshell CARR Scholarship Winner, 1999 As a language arts consultant, I have helped countless teachers understand the importance of matching children with books. I have come to realize that as teachers, we look at books differently than the average…