'School leaders can step up': teachers say literacy not seen as whole school priority

Deniz Uzgun

By Deniz Uzgun
Published June 23, 2021

Are school leaders genuinely treating literacy as a whole school priority, and further to this, are they strongly committed to supporting struggling literacy learners? According to a national survey, nearly half of teachers say no.

These are the findings of the School leadership and whole-school support of struggling literacy learners in secondary schools study, led by ...

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