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Download full textStedman, Lawrence C.; Kaestle, Carl F. – 1986
Focusing on the problems of validity and representativeness of samples, a study examined the history of literacy in the United States since 1880 in order to set the contemporary debate on test scores, literacy and reading performance in the longer-range perspective of the last 100 years. The quality of the data and the arguments of literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational History, Educational Trends, Literacy
