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Download full textDepartment of Education, Washington, DC. – 1990
The Adult Education Amendments of 1988 require the Department of Education to submit a report to Congress on the definition of literacy and then to estimate the extent of adult literacy. Literacy has been defined by self-report in early Census Bureau surveys, in a competency-based approach by the Adult Performance Level project, and as "the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Definitions, Evaluation Methods
