1966 Dartmouth Literacy Conference

The Dartmouth Literacy conference started on August 20, 1966, and lasted a little over three weeks until September 16, 1966.

He received help from Arthur Jensen, a professor at Dartmouth, who was in charge of things locally, Albert Marckwardt, who was a linguist from Princeton, and Frank Whitehead from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom.

The decision to have a conference about literacy was because of the standards that were beginning to fall in the United states schools.

The things that American professors found surprising is that British educators do not have any written curriculum.

[4] When selecting a location of the conference they wanted to find a place where the members would not be distracted easily.

After combining the information that they knew they came to the conclusion that everyone learns in their own ways, but most people pick up language and grammar at earlier ages of around 5 to 6 years old.

They went on to discuss how when people go to college they simply go for the degree for a better life down the road versus actually learning the material.

They discussed ways for English educations to be different in colleges or universities, but they came up with mixed results.

[6] Another one of the main three topics discussed at the conference was the training of the teachers or professors in both pre-service and in-service.

[2] Although they didn't create any curriculum many papers and books were written after attending the conference.