From Ignorance To Literacy

Are you in or coming out of financial trouble and want to start over the right way, with a proper biblical understanding of money? Are you looking for a clear understanding of how to manage your finances? Need some critical analysis and practical advice about getting back on track? If so, this book is for you. It tackles questions and topics such as: Stewardship What is biblical stewardship and why is it important in financial literacy? Character traits of a good steward? Earning Professions that are Godly and God given. How do I find my life's work? Spending Mindsets of a dysfunctional spender. Tools and techniques of a value shopper. Borrowing Debt and dysfunctional behavior. Getting debt problems under control and becoming debt free. Giving The power of giving. Three components of giving and cultivating a giving heart. Investing How do I invest and where to begin? Get rich quick schemes and why they don't work? How to recognize schemes? Protecting Planning for worst-case scenarios and for the unexpected. The four areas of life that require disaster planning. David Wood is a banking executive with a leading financial institution. He is passionate about financial literacy and believes the road to financial health must come from combining sound biblical principles with practical financial tools and strategies. He began his career 32 years ago, received training on Wall Street and rose through the ranks of banking and commercial real estate finance. Along the way, he also started and ran a small business, and endured his own journey from financial ruin to financial restoration and health. He shares how he started over and what principals and behaviors helped him achieve complete recovery. For more information about the author and this book, contact: David A. Wood DL Wood Group 213-375-3661 dlwoodgroup.com fromignorancetoliteracy.com

A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.

Harvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy Myth reevaluates the role typically assigned to literacy in historical scholarship, cultural understanding, economic development schemes, and social doctrines and ideologies.

"The scope and nature of this account of the modern history of reading/literacy education (especially tied to the aspirational readers) are unique. Enlisting the metaphor of waves, it traces monumental shifts in theory, research and practice related to reading education and literacy that represent developments that verge on revolutionary changes. Each of these waves is accompanied with a discussion of the aspirational reader that sets the stage for contemplating these shifts and their significance. The discussions trace the research and theoretical developments in a fashion that exemplifies the origins of the shifts and their influences"--

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Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as first and second language reading, second language acquisition, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. The first half examines major factors in second language reading: types of scripts, the cognitive and neural substrates of reading; metalinguistic awareness, word recognition, language transfer, and lexical knowledge. The second part of the book discusses the social and educational contexts in which reading development occurs, including issues related to pedagogy, the use of technology in the classroom, reading disorders, and policy making. Reading in a Second Language provides students with a full, logically organized overview of the primary factors that shape reading development and processes in a second language.

First book from the new World of Writing series Interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of linguistics, psychology, history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and history of art Illustrated with black and white plates of works by Wyndham Lewis and David Jones, including the painted frontispiece to T.S. Eliott's A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday