Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the ‘closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response.
Harvard Educational Review

Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. Times Educational Supplement

[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evalu...