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Direct linkHauptli, Meghan V.; Cohen-Vogel, Lora – American Journal of Education, 2013
This article examines the federal role in adolescent literacy from its roots in Lyndon B. Johnson's administration with the Economic Opportunity Act (1964) through the Reading for Understanding grants of 2010. The authors consider the extent to which the recent attention to and changes in the federal approach to adolescent literacy can be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Federal Government, Government Role
Download full textNational Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 1994
The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) was charged with developing a National Literacy Database. This manual contains standards, guidelines, and a framework to be used when adding literacy resources to the National Literacy Information and Communication Network. As more state literacy resource centers (SLRCs) and literacy organizations…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Computer Software, Databases
Peer reviewedHumes, Barbara – Catholic Library World, 1994
Discusses features of the National Literacy Act that are of interest to librarians. Highlights include a new definition of literacy; cooperation between providers and government agencies; new programs, including state resource centers, national workforce strategies, services for prisoners, and family programs; amendments to existing legislation;…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Correctional Education, Family Programs, Federal Legislation
Thompson, Sandra J.; Johnstone, Christopher J.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Clapper, Ann T. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2004
Literacy is a term that has been defined many ways, with definitions ranging from those that are very narrow to those that are very broad. Among the more wide sweeping was that of the 1991 National Literacy Act, which defined literacy as a wide range of language tasks associated with everyday life, including those "necessary to function on…
Descriptors: Definitions, State Standards, Literacy, Reading Skills
