Sentence examples for literacy studies from inspiring English sources

Later this month the bride will receive a master's degree in literacy studies from Hofstra University.

This brings to mind a similar bias in literacy studies.

One of the central endeavors in contemporary literacy studies is to interrogate traditional definitions of literacy and deconstruct literacy myths.

One important sub-group rarely examined by financial literacy studies is immigrants, who have specialized financial needs related to remittances.

James Paul Gee, a professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University who grew interested in video games when his son began playing them years ago, has written several seminal books on the power of video games to inspire learning.

"I think we're all impressed by how stupid humans are," remarked James Gee, a professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University, who holds degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Stanford.

Your news story on the National Assessment of Educational Progress literacy study comissioned by Secretary of Education William J. Bennett (Sept . 25 doesn't bring out the true significance of the report.

The doctors also pointed to a 1992 national adult literacy study that found that 21percentt of Americans adults could not read the front page of the newspaper, and that 48percentt had trouble reading a bus schedule.

The Average Scores and Rankings for the fourth-grade Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, in 2011, ranked the U.S. sixth out of forty-eight countries, ahead of France, England, Austria, New Zealand, and Norway, among others.

The results were drawn from two tests -- the 2011 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, known as PIRLS, and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, referred to as TIMSS.

Indeed, one major literacy study and report recently pointed out, in an aside, that the idea that reading books will do a lot for the literacy of students is sadly misguided.