Heads up for literacy; a unique educational program for teaching children and adults to read and write is getting good marks in tests around the country.
Saturday Evening Post › Nbr. 258, January 1986
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Heads up for literacy; a unique educational program for teaching children and adults to read and write is getting good marks in tests around the country.
HEADS UP FOR LITERACY
A first grader at Chicago's R.D. Henton Academy recently visited a restaurant with her parents and politely asked for her own menu, please. When dinner arrived, she reminded the waitress that her order included bread. The menu said so. A thousand miles away, Fahey McCann, a field representative in the national "Heads Up" literacy project, later applauded his former student's reading prowess and her moxie in correcting the menu oversight. "That tells me this little girl can read," McCann says. "She...See the full content of this document
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