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Boys and Literacy

By Liz Bulkley on Tuesday, December 19, 2006.

Boys are influenced by popular culture differently from girls. We'll look at how their general preferences for adventure stories -- with battles and violence -- can work against them, especially within the traditional school system. Our guests are Ralph Fletcher, author of Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices and UNH Professor Tom Newkirk, author of Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture.

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