Lissa Paul, professor of Education, was referenced in the Toronto Star/parentcentral.ca article “The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature: Value in Kid Lit” on Feb. 14. The article included a brief synopsis of her essay in The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature.

Lissa Paul’s essay on “learning to be literate” is noteworthy for its engaging, personal voice, but more important, for its relevance to the way education is bogged down in current modes of measuring literacy. Despite its gruesome association with mass standardized testing, literacy is “not so much about skill as about interpretation and knowledge,” Paul points out, citing research that has all but sunk in the morass of educational theory.

• The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature: Value in Kid Lit – Parentcentral.ca