Recounts the arts-based literacy initiative in urban after-school environments. This initiative used comic books, pictures, and illustrations as tools and mediums to increase literacy
Supiano explains the extreme need for financial literacy in college campuses, where students are adults, yet still have very little financial knowledge or independence. Supiano discusses that without the new initiatives for new finance classes at colleges, non-business students would graduate with very little financial literacy, but in many cases with a lot of debt. This article paints a very great picture of the situation of our college financial literacy. The article gives helpful knowledge into some examples of college literacy initiatives, and offers many possible solutions to the financial literacy problem among college students.
This article gives the other side of the picture which is that the Bible is schools would limit the religious options of the students experiencing the class or course. However, farther down in this article it gives the historical "significance" of biblical study. But it still feels that having this in schools would limit the "religious freedom" of the students.
The author states that children instinctively understand music. She believes since both music and reading are im portant that they should be used in combination to teach literacy. Using evidence from the Mozart effect studies, she stress the importance of music in education