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Changing Work, Changing Workers : Critiical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills ; Glynda Hull (Editor); Paperback
Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and workplace education programs to see what is expected currently of workers. The studies reported in Hull's book draw their evidence from firsthand, sustained looks at workplaces and workplace education efforts. Many of the chapters represent long-term ethnographic or qualitative research. Others are fine-grained examinations of texts, curricula, or policy. Such perspectives result in portraits that honor the complex nature of work, people, and education.

Constitutional Literacy : A Core Curriculum for a Multicultural Nation (Constitutional Conflicts); Toni Marie Massaro; Hardcover
The author is a law professor who addresses educational reform, in particular the movement for a national core curriculum, which seems inherently to be a call to conflict and dissent in our multicultural nation. She analyzes the national need for shored up stores of shared knowledge and proposes that constitutional principles form the basis of a core curriculum, thus allowing cultural and ideological differences to be featured rather than subsumed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Content Area Literacy : Interactive Teaching for Active Learning; Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Manzo; Hardcover
This book is intended largely to introduce teachers-to-be to the "why" and "how" of promoting basic and higher-order literacy. It does so in the context of promoting reading and thinking as a collateral part of specific subject instruction, and in an increasingly interconnected local and global environment.

Coping With an Illiterate Parent (Coping Series); Nancy N. Rue; Library Binding
Advice for young people whose parents can't read in helping to deal with what is really a whole-family problem and changing that situation for the better.