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Katy Field's List: New Literacies
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“In schools that tend to be high need, high poverty, and low scoring, curriculum focuses intensely on those skills that are tested,” said Sara Kajder, an assistant professor of English education at the University of Georgia who was not involved in the study. “We don’t test on media literacy even though those might be the most important skills that we can give kids right now.”
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In their paper, they speculate that the online reading achievement gap could derive in large part from unequal expectations for how the Internet should be used in school. In the study, students in the lower-middle income category (who came from families with a median income of $58,981) were six times as likely as students from the upper-income category (median family income of $119,228) to report that they were never required to use the Internet while at school.
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