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| Accountability | 1 |
| Adult Basic Education | 1 |
| Adult Literacy | 1 |
| Citizenship Responsibility | 1 |
| Functional Literacy | 1 |
| Functional Reading | 1 |
| Reading Ability | 1 |
| Reading Skills | 1 |
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| Journal of Reading | 1 |
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| Fitzgerald, Gisela G. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Gisela G. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Argues that the obligatory nature of functional literacy does not deprive the individual freedom of thought and opinion, and that voluntarism in basic adult education in the United States has greatly contributed to putting the nation at risk and to keeping it a nation at risk. (HOD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Responsibility
