It is startling and it is shaming: in a country that prides itself on being among the most enlightened in the world, 25 million American adults cannot read the

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the

Catalog lists and briefly describes reports by the NIE. Also lists NIE reports by subject areas published before 1977. Items not located here should be found th

This text's basic argument is that our knowledge generally far exceeds our job opportunities.