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Reading Don't Fix No Chevys (Yet!)
Author(s) -
Wilhelm Jeffrey D.,
Smith Michael W.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.361
Subject(s) - reading (process) , pleasure , odds , literacy , psychology , power (physics) , pedagogy , academic standards , mathematics education , higher education , computer science , political science , logistic regression , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , machine learning , law
Research establishes that boys underperform in literacy relative to girls. If boys are to be successful on the assessments designed to measure achievement on the Common Core State Standards ( CCSS ) and if they are to become lifelong readers, they must be motivated to embrace instruction designed both to prepare them for success and to experience the pleasure and power of reading. Unfortunately, the authors of the standards have been advocating instruction that is radically at odds with what we have learned about what motivates young men. In this commentary we'll review the key findings of our Chevys study, supplementing the work we did there with one of our more recent projects, examine how what we found stacks up against the instructional ideas being proffered by David Coleman and other authors of the CCSS , and suggest alternative approaches to achieving the CCSS that are more in‐line with what we've learned.