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Broken Words. Why Five Million Canadians Are Illiterate. The Southam Literacy Report: A Special Southam Survey.

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Calamai, Peter – 1987

This booklet contains 29 articles about literacy that originally appeared in newspapers across Canada during September 1987. Many are based on the extensive findings of a national literacy survey of 2,398 Canadian adults commissioned by Southam Inc. The survey provided the first real statistics about the state of literacy in the country;…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Needs

Literacy. LeaderPost Special Report.

1987

This special report is a look at illiteracy across Canada and in Saskatchewan. It includes stories by Peter Calamai, a national correspondent with Southam News, and by Regina Leader-Post reporters Kevin O'Connor, Zena Olijnyk, Ron Petrie, and Beverley Spencer. The publication also includes stories by the Canadian press. Calamai's stories are the…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, American Indians