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Focus on Practice: Is the National Literacy Strategy raising the achievement of lower attainers?
Author(s) -
Lingard Tony
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.00173
Subject(s) - raising (metalworking) , literacy , focus (optics) , pedagogy , mathematics education , literacy education , psychology , sociology , physics , geometry , mathematics , optics
Tony Lingard, Head of Learning Support, Camborne School and Community College, Cornwall, questions whether the National Literacy Strategy is raising the achievement of lower attainers and suggests adaptations, based on his own Literacy Acceleration programme, which he argues could make the Strategy far more effective.