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Biggins, Catherine M.; Sainz, Jo-Ann – 1989
Many functionally illiterate freshmen feel helpless in the face of their inability to learn to read at a competent level. College freshmen who drop out because of this disability are losers who suffer tremendous disadvantages when they leave college without earning a diploma. Possible causes of functional illiteracy hindering the least educated…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Illiteracy, Learning Disabilities
