Institute for Education and the Arts

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Monday, October 02, 2006

Literacy and Boys

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting an article on the role arts can play, along with other approaches, in helping boys learn literacy skills.

With Boys in Mind/Media and Literacy: What's Good?
ASCD/Educational Leadership

In the film Apollo 13, there is chaos at NASA's Mission Control after the explosion in the space capsule. Even during the most serious systems failures, some parts of that system still work-and any solution must build on these working parts, not simply focus on problems or deficiencies. The latest Educational Leadership examines how this concept can be used to improve the literacy among boys. Read more.


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