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PDF pending restorationFarr, Roger – 1979
This testimony presented before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities presents an expert's conclusions about the status of reading in the United States. It points to several studies comparing reading achievement scores of students today to scores of students of several years ago; discusses data that are used to…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy
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Download full textMuller, Anne, Ed.; Murtagh, Teresa, Ed. – Education Today, 2002
In 2000, approximately 877 million adults worldwide were illiterate and 113 million children did not attend school. More than two-thirds of those individuals lived in East and South Asia, and two-thirds were females. Functional illiteracy remains high in developed and developing nations alike. The reasons include weak training in how to teach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Community Education
