Report Statistical Analysis Report

Adult Literacy in America: A First Look at the Findings of the National Adult Literacy Survey

NCES
Author(s):
Irwin S. Kirsch, Ann Jungeblut, Lynn Jenkins, and Andrew Kolstad
Publication date:
August 1993
Survey areas:
NAAL - National Assessments of Adult Literacy
Publication number:
NCES 93275

Summary

This report provides a first look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and administered by Educational Testing Service, in collaboration with Westat, Inc. It provides the most detailed portrait that has ever been available on the condition of literacy in this nation -- and on the unrealized potential of its citizens.

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Adult Education

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