Bridges to Literacy

by David K. Dickinson

Book Overview

In increasingly technological economies around the world, workers need to be able to read and write complex material. Yet demographic changes - resulting in minority languages and cultures, some without family traditions of literacy, and poverty persisting from generation to generation - present serious impediments to full literacy. Bridges to Literacy reviews the progress that has been made in developing school and community-based programs to help...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557863733
• ISBN13: 9781557863737
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"