Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society

Introduction: Writing at the Speed of Change ix

The Grawemeyer Award in Education: A Conversation with Deborah Brandt 1

1 Sponsors of Literacy 23

2 Literacy in American Lives: Living and Learning in a Sea of Change 47

3 Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century 67

4 Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading 91

5 Writing for a Living: Literacy and the Knowledge Economy 117

6 The Status of Writing 141

7 How Writing Is Remaking Reading 161

Conclusion: An Excerpt from Literacy in American Lives 177

Appendix: Interview Script 193

Questions for Reflection 197

Index 199

Credit Lines 205

The Author 207