In “The Digital Teachers Corps: Closing America’s Literacy Gap” (pdf), Levine, executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, and Gee, professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University, propose recruiting 1,500 “digitally savvy young teachers, as well as a cadre of community literacy mentors including master teachers and librarians” for the first year and scaling up by 5,000 people annually. Participants would be dispatched into U.S. public schools in low-income communities.
The brief highlights the continued literacy crisis as well as the excruciating slow place by which school systems adopt new media tools for learning: “In the United States today, the majority of low-income children and a shocking one-third of their more affluent peers are behind when it comes to one key predictor of future achievement: fourth grade reading.”
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