| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Studying the history of literacy / Carl F. Kaestle -- The history of readers / Carl F. Kaestle -- Literacy and reading performance in the United States from 1880 to the present / Lawrence C. Stedman, Carl F. Kaestle -- The great test-score decline : a closer look / Lawrence C. Stedman, Carl F. Kaestle -- Literacy as a consumer activity / Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley, Carl F. Kaestle -- Surveying American readers / Helen Damon-Moore, Carl F. Kaestle -- Highbrow and middlebrow magazines in 1920 / William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Carl F. Kaestle -- Autobiographies and the history of reading : the meaning of literacy in individual lives / Katherine Tinsley, Carl F. Kaestle -- Gender, advertising, and mass-circulation magazines / Helen Damon-Moore, Carl F. Kaestle -- Standardization and diversity in the American print culture, 1880 to the present / Carl F. Kaestl |
| Summary |
The book explores diverse sources--from tests of reading ability, government surveys, and polls to nineteenth-century autobiographies and family budget studies--in order to assess trends in Americans' reading abilities and reading habits |
| Analysis |
Geschichte |
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Literacy |
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Literacy United States History |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-332) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literacy -- United States -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Literacy
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Leser
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Lesen
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Leesgewoonten.
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Alfabetisme.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Lesen.
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Leser.
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United States
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USA
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Damon-Moore, Helen, 1958- author.
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| LC no. |
90046716 |
| ISBN |
9780300162219 |
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0300162219 |
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