Literacy Programs, Policies, and Curriculum

Challenges for Digital Literacy in English Curriculum

This paper presents and describes the implementation of digital literacy in English curriculum in the context of Hong Kong. We outline two major challenges of introducing digital pedagogy in humanities classrooms at the undergraduate level and discuss with specific reference to two cases the strategies we have taken to tackle them.

Status, Issues, Policies, and Programs

Measuring the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Programs in Ghana

This paper explores the effectiveness of financial literacy programs. It further seeks to establish the relationship between financial literacy and certain demographic characteristics. This study adopted a correlational research design as the framework to examine the relationship between variables without determining cause and effect. Data were randomly collected from 235 petty traders in Kumas...

High school health curriculum and health literacy: Canadian student voices.

This study explores the relevance of health literacy, and its development through a health curriculum, as a necessary but insufficient component to facilitate healthy living among adolescents through comprehensive school health models. This paper presents qualitative findings from focus groups with students (N = 33) in four schools toward the end of their experience in a health class that focus...

Third Grade Literacy Policies: Identification, Intervention, Retention

Introduction S tudents not reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to drop out of high school. 1 This fact and other recent research on the importance of early literacy skills have culminated in an intense focus on improving 3rd-grade reading proficiency. The challenges of improving literacy are, in turn, causing more state leaders to conf...