World Literacy: How Countries Rank and Why It Matters

by John W. Miller and Michael C. McKenna

Book Overview

International literacy assessments have provided ample data for ranking nations, charting growth, and casting blame. Summarizing the findings of these assessments, which afford a useful vantage from which to view world literacy as it evolves, this book examines literate behavior worldwide, in terms of both the ability of populations from a wide variety of nations to read and the practice of literate behavior in those nations. Drawing on The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138909556
• ISBN13: 9781138909557
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"