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Prologue: Toward an Understanding of Literacy Issues in Multicultural School-Age Populations

This article introduces a forum that explores issues surrounding literacy in multicultural school-age populations. It discusses sociocultural factors that overshadow traditional literacy-learning objectives, the relationship between low socioeconomic status and low literacy, environmental influences that affect literacy, and culturally biased assessments that challenge educators to find reliable alternative assessments.

• Author/Creator: Harris, Joyce L.
• Date Published: Jan
• Journal/Secondary Title: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
• Number: 1
• Volume: 34
• Year: 2003

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Educators
• Subject: Cultural Differences
• Subject: Environmental Influences
• Subject: Language Impairments
• Subject: Literacy
• Subject: Minority Group Children

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