Bibliograph

Literacy in the United States, readers and reading since 1880, Carl F. Kaestle ; Helen Damon-Moore ... [et al.]

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Literacy in the United States, readers and reading since 1880, Carl F. Kaestle ; Helen Damon-Moore ... [et al.]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Literacy in the United States

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

22387202

Responsibility statement

Carl F. Kaestle ; Helen Damon-Moore ... [et al.]

Sub title

readers and reading since 1880

Summary

The book explores diverse sources--from tests of reading ability, government surveys, and polls to nineteenth-century autobiographies and family budget studies--in order to assess trends in Americans' reading abilities and reading habits

Table Of Contents

Studying the history of literacy / Carl F. Kaestle -- The history of readers / Carl F. Kaestle -- Literacy and reading performance in the United States from 1880 to the present / Lawrence C. Stedman, Carl F. Kaestle -- The great test-score decline : a closer look / Lawrence C. Stedman, Carl F. Kaestle -- Literacy as a consumer activity / Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley, Carl F. Kaestle -- Surveying American readers / Helen Damon-Moore, Carl F. Kaestle -- Highbrow and middlebrow magazines in 1920 / William Vance Trollinger, Jr., Carl F. Kaestle -- Autobiographies and the history of reading : the meaning of literacy in individual lives / Katherine Tinsley, Carl F. Kaestle -- Gender, advertising, and mass-circulation magazines / Helen Damon-Moore, Carl F. Kaestle -- Standardization and diversity in the American print culture, 1880 to the present / Carl F. Kaestl

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