Becoming a literacy leader: the root cause of poor student achievement in our secondary schools is poor literacy skills. There is help for administrators who want to implement a comprehensive literacy approach.

From: Leadership | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Covey, Donna | Copyright information

Throughout the state, middle and high school principals, district office administrators and teachers are grappling with the challenge of supporting standards-based curricula for students who do not have the basic skills to read and comprehend classroom text. The 2002 data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicate that more than 35 percent of fourth-grade students in the U.S. lack basic reading skills. What are the implications for secondary schools?

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