Is literacy enough? : pathways to academic success for adolescents / by Catherine Snow ... [et al.]. - Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., 2007 - xix, 153 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ever-narrowing path to school success -- Closing the literacy achievement gap and promoting reading for learning : two challenges -- Early language and literacy skills and later -- Reading comprehension : literacy predicts literacy -- Continuities in literacy, discontinuities in outcomes : middle and high school -- Motivational and scholastic resources that predict academic success -- Different motivational characteristics in learners : the carrot or the stick? -- Projections of triumph and frustration -- Lessons learned and lessons needed : seeking the missing puzzle pieces.

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Reading (Secondary)--United States.
Academic achievement--Longitudinal studies.--United States