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A student who wants to work in a school system as the director of literacy would have the opportunity to earn a master 's degree in the Language and Literacy program , to take specialized courses on language across Harvard , and to do a field placement in a school system . The strengths of faculty and students include the following broad topics : language and literacy ; mind , brain , and education ; early childhood development ; and children at risk . A significant number of general education teachers report that their training programs did not prepare them to properly assess learner characteristics and provide effective reading instruction on the basis of these assessments , particularly to children with limited oral language and literacy experiences who arrive in the classroom behind in vocabulary development , print awareness abilities , and phonological abilities . In 1993 the report which he had coordinated of the National Enquiry into the Employment and Supply of Teachers of Languages Other Than English ( Languages at the Crossroads ) was published by the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia . These services will be respectful of learners ' learning styles and cultural needs , literacy and parenting needs , and which encourage their children 's language and literacy development so that all may achieve their emotional , spiritual , physical and mental capacity .