Is literacy enough?
Subtitle: pathways to academic success for adolescents
By: by Catherine Snow ... [et al.].
Contributors: Snow, Catherine E.
Publisher: Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557669148
Subjects: Reading (Secondary) -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ever-narrowing path to school success; title: Closing the literacy achievement gap and promoting reading for learning : two challenges; title: Early language and literacy skills and later; title: Reading comprehension : literacy predicts literacy; title: Continuities in literacy, discontinuities in outcomes : middle and high school; title: Motivational and scholastic resources that predict academic success; title: Different motivational characteristics in learners : the carrot or the stick?; title: Projections of triumph and frustration; title: Lessons learned and lessons needed : seeking the missing puzzle pieces.