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Aliteracy:: People Who Can Read But Won't

Aliteracy:: People Who Can Read But Won't

Thimmesch, Nick

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Series: AEI Symposia, Book 83

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Publisher Price: $14.50

ISBN10: 0844722472
ISBN13: 9780844722474
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: Jan 1 1984
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Aliteracy: People Who Can Read but Won't, edited by Nick Thimmesch, addresses one of the critical issues of this decade. The decline of language skills in successive generations of high school students, the simplification of college textbooks, a diminished newspaper readership, the omnipresence of television-what effects will these have on our democratic way of life? Some see these trends as the loosened threads that will finally unravel the fabric of our society and move us closer to a world in which power will reside with a literate elite. Others point to contrary evidence-the near-eradication of illiteracy from the United States, a thriving magazine industry, the flood of new books, and an increased use of public libraries.

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