Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture
Thomas Newkirk
Grade: 3rd-8th
Pub Date: 8/9/2002
Post-Columbine has been a time when the issues of popular culture and the behavior of boys have generated more heat than light. This complex, contested intersection has led to censorship and worse-alarm, irrationality, and a failure to examine our ways of teaching, particularly teaching literacy to boys. In this book Tom Newkirk takes an up-close and personal look at elementary... more