Literacy Achievement and Diversity: Keys to Success For Students, Teachers, and Schools

s | November 13, 2011

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Title: Literacy achievement and diversity : keys to success for students, teachers, and schools

Author: Kathryn H. Au

Publisher: New York, NY –Teachers College Press, c2011

Call Number: LB1576 .A88 2011

From the Publisher:

‘‘Kathryn Au continues to lead teacher educators and researchers in addressing culturally relevant pedagogies…After completing this ‘must-read’ book, you will gain new understandings about yourself, about others, and about culturally relevant pedagogies. You will see that it is indeed possible to close the literacy achievement gap.” –From the Foreword by Patricia A. Edwards, President of the International Reading Association, 2010-2011, and coauthor of Change Is Gonna Come: Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students

What can educators do to improve the literacy learning of students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds? This book highlights four keys to success that educators can use. It shows that it can be done–the literacy achievement gap can be closed, and culturally responsive instruction is an important part of the solution. Students of diverse backgrounds can achieve high levels of literacy, in classrooms where learning can be joyful, and in schools where educators have a strong sense of community and purpose.

About the Author: Kathryn H. Au is chief executive officer of SchoolRise, LLC in Honolulu Hawaii and past-president of the International Reading Association.

On the Web:  Amazon

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