Today, BBC News reports
Today's teenagers 'more literate'. The article explains that "Teenagers are more literate than they were 10 years ago, one of the largest studies of exam papers suggests." The problem, of course, is that assessment of literacy in the study is based on those exam papers. The variety of literacies that teen (or any) readers and writers rely on every day cannot all be measured by a written standardized test. Students are very literate. We just don't ever measure all they know.
Posted Sunday, 24-Aug-2008 15:17:25 PDT
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