Can adult literacy programs help high school students who are struggling to read?
I haven’t seen any research one way or the other. I’m certainly positively predisposed to public libraries in general and to anything that’s organized through the local public libraries. They tend to use local people, and they tend to have high credibility. But I haven’t seen any specific research looking at that, so I can’t say unequivocally, “Oh, yes, this is exactly the way to go.” But that would certainly be one of the resources, adult literacy programs. To be honest with you, adult literacy hasn’t really gotten near the airplay that beginning reading and supporting students in the elementary grades has. I was just reading the current issue of Scientific Studies of Reading. It’s a special issue on reading development in adults. And in the introduction to it, Venezky and Sabatini talk about this issue of reading development in adults – really meaning late teens – and that that [particular] struggle with reading hasn’t been given near the attention that it needs. It’s really a burgeo
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