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Wray, Virginia F. – National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1985
American high-school graduates should be expected to be literate. There is a need to come to an understanding of what literacy is, what its fundamental relationship to education is, and what the responsibilities are to teach it. (MLW)
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Core Curriculum, Diction
Download full textMiller, Richard E. – 1989
There is indeed a literacy crisis, but this crisis needs to be reconceived as a crisis in definition. Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo's book "Literacy: Reading the Word and the World" can be used to refute E. D. Hirsch's arguments as presented in his "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know," but this kind of…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Cultural Context, Definitions, Educational Change
