Adolescent literacy "Time to act" report

Here is a link to a very interesting report - Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success - from the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy. There are also five corresponding reports on particular aspects - I found the most interesting one was about reading across disciplines - the others are more relevant to the USA.

http://www.carnegie.org/literacy/tta/

The Time to Act report would be of interest to secondary school management, teachers, librarians. It provides rationale, research, case studies, action plans...

There are parallels to the Effective Literacy Strategies emphasis on all teachers being teachers of literacy...

For all students in all subject areas, literacy and language are central to thinking, learning and achievement. Students need to learn how to use effective literacy and thinking strategies in order to be successful in our secondary school system and to become lifelong learners. Therefore it is essential that all our teachers are effective teachers of literacy.

Effective Literacy Strategies, Ministry of Education, 2005