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Kaestle, Carl F. – 1979
A review of the development of literacy in American national life provides both a picture of two centuries during which the strong association of literacy with mainstream cultural values was largely unexamined and unchallenged, and a realization that illiteracy is inextricably related to problems of discrimination and alienation in the workplace,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities, Functional Literacy
