What connection does the author make between
literacy and art?​

There is a difference between literacy and reading. Literacy does not mean teaching children to read. Every voracious reader is literate as one needs to know how to read in order to read avidly. However, not every literate person may love reading.

Explanation:

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.  

i think the literacy device is "it's frozen head"