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Download full textUshomirsky, Natasha; Hall, Daria – Education Trust, 2010
With the focus of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on struggling schools and reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) on the horizon, now is the time to have an honest conversation about what people know--and don't know--about school-level trends. To spur this conversation and to help state and local…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Legislation, Middle Schools
Massey, Randy H.; Mathews, John J. – 1980
A study was conducted to examine the reading levels of United States Air Force civilian employees according to occupational groupings and grade structure. Approximately 1,050 Air Force civilian subjects were tested on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test or the California Reading Test. Subjects were selected from eight Air Force bases representing the…
Descriptors: Adults, Government Employees, Job Skills, Occupations
Talbot, Winthrop – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
"Illiterates" are those who have not learned to write in any language. This is the definition on which American and most foreign statistics of illiteracy are based, because the percentage of those who can read but can not write is so small that it may be ignored. The test of writing one's name and ordinary words is simple, easily…
Descriptors: Working Class, Immigrants, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy
