Literacy for the twenty-first century : research, policy, practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey, edited by M. Cecil Smith ; foreword by Paul Simon

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Literacy for the twenty-first century : research, policy, practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey, edited by M. Cecil Smith ; foreword by Paul Simon

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research, policy, practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey

Statement of responsibility

edited by M. Cecil Smith ; foreword by Paul Simon

Instantiates

• Literacy for the twenty-first century : research, policy, practices, and the National Adult Literacy Survey

Publication

• Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1998

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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• txt

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Contents

• Work, school, and literacy
• Jeremy D. Finn and Susan B. Gerber
• Adults' reading practices and their associations with literacy proficiencies
• M Cecil Smith and Janet K. Sheehan
• Literacy gender gaps : evidence from the National Adult Literacy Survey
• Lynn Friedman and Ernest Davenport
• Literacy habits and political participation
• Richard L. Venezky and David Kaplan
• Community college literacy : is the middle right?
• Joseph Howard and Wayne S. Obetz
• Adult literacy research and the National Adult Literacy Survey
• Literacy selection and literacy development : structural equation models of the reciprocal effects of education and literacy
• Stephen Reder
• Literacy proficiency among adults with self-reported learning disabilities
• Susan A. Vogel and Stephen Reder
• Family literacy and adult education : Project FLAME
• Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown and Maureen A. Meehan
• Adult literacy and health care
• Joanne R. Nurss
• M Cecil Smith and Stephen Reder
• Literacy in America : a brief overview of the NALS
• Irwin S. Kirsch
• Adult education and literacy public policy : what it is and how it is shaped
• Alice Johnson and Andrew Hartman
• Dimensionality and construct validity of the NALS assessment
• Stephen Reder

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25 cm

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ix, 212 pages

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9780275957865

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98009946

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• n

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illustrations

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99183682140001161

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• (OCoLC)38216131
• (OCoLC)ocm38216131