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Download full textBrooks, Greg – 1997
Surveys of literacy attainment have been going on in the United Kingdom since 1948. The main finding is that literacy standards have changed very little in that time. Among 8-year-olds (children in Year 3) in England and Wales, however, standards fell slightly in the late 1980s, and then recovered in the early 1990s. The few international…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Educational Trends
