What Literacy Means
What is one example of literacy the author learned outside of traditional school?
Reading people's body language, tone, and the atmosphere of a room.
Violet J. Harris
Who’s the author?
What is learning recession and how does it effects students?
Decline in learning and it affects students because they fall behind and feel unintelligent
What is STAR, and what content areas does it access
Standard Testing and Reporting Program, accessing English Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics and Science
African-Americans examine the concept of literacy across the years from 1700-1992 (p. 276)
What is literacy
What is the federal act, No Child Left Behind? What was wrong with it?
It passed students regardless of their grade, pass or fail. It was wrong because good test scores were being used to fund schools, and students were struggling academically as a result.
What did Castillo eventually learn about the struggles he experienced in school?
They were connected to larger issues like, language, culture, identity, and inequality, not simply his ability to learn.
“Literacy serves emancipatory functions when appropriated to reconstruct society and/or provide individuals with the options needed to participate in a sociocultural institution.” (p. 277)
What is education
What two things does the article claim to be the main problems
Lack of testing and social media
What scholars were a part of Castillo’s literary lineage?
Bell Hooks & Paulo Freire
“They, too, maintain an unstinting belief in the power of literacy to effect essential political, cultural, social, and economic change.” (p. 276)
What is power
What year were reading test scores already declining?
2013
Who does Castillo refer himself to in High School as his love grew for literacy?
Belle from “Beauty and the Beast”
“African-Americans were intellectually inferior and incapable of learning more than the rudiments of basic skills.” (p. 276)
What is slavery
What did the “science of reading” discover?
It discovered that if you teach and allow students to sound out words instead of correcting them, it allows for better learning