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Tatum, Alfred W. – Harvard Educational Review, 2008
In this article, Alfred Tatum argues that the current framing of the adolescent literacy crisis fails to take into account the in-school and out-of-school challenges confronting many African American male adolescents today, particularly those growing up in high-poverty communities. Using the metaphor of literacy instruction as a human body, he…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Males