Literacy

Week of May 5, 1986
Robert Barnes, a U.S. Department of Education official, releases a study finding that about 1 in 8 American adults has serious literacy problems. The study dispels the notion that less than 1% of adults are illiterate and shows that most poor readers are under 50, not older, as was once believed.

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