Industry Research and Reports

Adolescent Literacy Instruction

• Excellence in English in Middle and High School: How Teachers' Professional Lives Support Student Achivement, by Judith Langer
• Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well, by Judith Langer
• Reading Next report
• Writing Next Report
• Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement
• NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform
• Reading and Diverse Learners (NCITE Research Synthesis)

New Literacies

• Results that Matter (21st Century Skills)
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Kids & Media @ The New Millennium (Kaiser Family Foundation Report)

Adolescence

• Why Some Schools with Latino Children Beat the Odds and Others Don't

English Language Arts

• Issues in the English Language Arts: A Survey of Teachers and State Coordinators, by Arthur N. Applebee
• "Engaging Students in the Disciplines of English: What Are Successful Schools Doing?" by Arthur Applebee
• What Happens in Classrooms? Instructional Practices in Elementary and Secondary Schools 1994-95 (NCES Report)
• State Standards Documents (for all states)

Articles and Reports by Jim Burke

• Developing Students' Textual Intelligence Through Grammar
• I Hear America Reading
• Bring Honor and Meaning to Learning
• Caught in the Web
• At the Coliseum
• I Teach English Not Science!
• In My Father's Garden
• Fathers Matter
• Teaching Sisyphus to Juggle
• What Students Remember
• The Student in the Back
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