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Merga, Margaret Kristin; Moon, Brian – High School Journal, 2016
Aliteracy, the state in which the skill to read has been acquired, but not the will, is a growing concern in research on adolescence internationally. The West Australian Study in Adolescent Book Reading (WASABR) aimed to discover current attitudes toward and levels of engagement in recreational book reading among 520 adolescent students from 20…
Descriptors: High School Students, Recreational Reading, Social Influences, Parent Influence
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Sanchez, Patricia; Machado-Casas, Margarita – High School Journal, 2009
Except for Mexico, there are now more Latino-origin people in the U.S. than there are people in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or any other Spanish-speaking country. In fact, the nation is experiencing the greatest demographic transformation in the last 100 years of its history. As former schoolteachers of immigrant children in Texas and California,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Educational Researchers, Immigrants