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What's Really Behind the Literacy Gap?
Literacy 2.0: The New Frontier of Literacy in the Digital Age
English - April 07, 2011 17:08 - 8 minutes - 26 Bytes - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsCourses Education education k-12 k12 early childhood dap reading writing literacy teachers middle school Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The gap in reading skills between various ethnic, racial and economic groups persists. In fact large numbers of American children have serious literacy problems. In this segment we take an up close look at the latest data on the causes of the literacy gap and current thinking on how to close it.