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Download full textUS Agency for International Development, 2006
Literacy is power--the power to improve one's life and shape one's community. All people should know how to read and write, yet 771 million people (18 percent of the world's population) are illiterate. The programs described in this booklet address this challenge. They are samples of a few of the many hundreds of excellent programs around the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Program Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Family Literacy
Puchner, Laurel D. – 1997
A study examined the literature to determine the veracity of the criticism of some educators who say that family literacy programs in the United States fail to take into account important cultural issues when dealing with certain target groups. Issues invoked included the need to take traditional cultural values and practices into account in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Case Studies
