RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 State Literacy Plans: Incorporating Adolescent Literacy
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 211
OP 230
DO 10.17763/haer.78.1.m96u215h587348hn
VO 78
IS 1
A1 SNOW, CATHERINE
A1 MARTIN, TWAKIA
A1 BERMAN, ILENE
YR 2008
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/78/1/211.abstract
AB In this article, Catherine Snow, Twakia Martin, and Ilene Berman describe professional development institutes offered in 2001 and 2002 by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to familiarize state-level policymakers with research on adolescent literacy and to guide states' development of effective literacy plans. The authors then review the literacy plans that four of the participating states developed in the years following their institute involvement and discuss ways in which the content of the literacy institutes is reflected in these states' plans. In conclusion, the authors call on higher education institutions to help state policymakers develop and evaluate initiatives intended to increase adolescents' reading skills. They also call for broader cross-state comparisons of states' strategies for improving adolescent literacy.