Rewriting the World: Literacy, Inequality, and the Brain

According to the Alliance for Excellent Education (2006), only 57% of Latino students, 53% of African American students, and 49% of American Indian and Alaska Native students entering ninth grade will earn a high school diploma. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (2000), a leading international language-rights ad...

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Published in:The New England Reading Association journal 2013-07, Vol.49 (1), p.22
Main Author: Darder, Antonia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult Literacy
African Americans
Alaska Natives
Attention Deficit Disorders
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Beliefs
Brain
Community Relations
Core curriculum
Death
Developed Nations
Education
Educational Practices
Equal Education
Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
Functional Literacy
Genocide
Governance
Grade 9
Hawaiians
Hispanic American Students
Ideology
Indigenous Populations
Industrialized nations
Language
Language Minorities
Learning
Linguistics
Literacy
Literacy Education
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority Group Students
Minority Groups
Multicultural Education
Public schools
Society
Teachers
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Summary:According to the Alliance for Excellent Education (2006), only 57% of Latino students, 53% of African American students, and 49% of American Indian and Alaska Native students entering ninth grade will earn a high school diploma. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (2000), a leading international language-rights advocate, argues in her book, Linguistic Genocide or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights, that the majority of language communities over the last hundred years have become victims of linguistic genocide-where the language is killed rather than the people. [...]she associates this form of genocide with a desire to destroy potential competition for political and economic power, in order to eliminate claims to national rights among indigenous and language minority populations.
ISSN:0028-4882