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Peer reviewedMurray, John E. – American Journal of Education, 2004
How and when children acquire the ability to read and write are questions of considerable interest. This essay uses a simple marker that has been closely examined in the historical literature, the ability to sign one's name, to study circumstances of literacy learning in a sample of 782 children that dates from about two centuries ago. Few…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Literacy, Case Studies, Mothers
