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PDF pending restorationNational Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
Compared to most countries assessed in 1994, the United States had a greater concentration of adults who scored at the lowest literacy levels across prose, document, and quantitative literacy domains. However, it had one of the higher concentrations of adults who scored at or above level 4 on the prose scale. The proportion of adults who scored at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
