Literacy for the Twenty-First Century: Research, Policy, Practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey

by M. Cecil Smith

Eight of the thirteen chapters describe investigations of adults' literacy skills based on analyses of the National Adult Literacy Survey. The studies describe how work contributes to literacy, associations between literacy skills and reading practices, reciprocal effects of education and literacy, gender differences in literacy abilities, the relationship between literacy and voting behavior, the literacy skills of adults having one or more learning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275957861
• ISBN13: 9780275957865
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"