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Download full textBrown, Rexford – Basic Education: Issues, Answers & Facts, 1988
The basic skills of reading, writing, and performing simple mathematical operations are not adequate for the non-college bound high school graduates to be fully prepared to enter the job market. Businesses today require employees who can communicate effectively, solve complex and unanticipated problems, and exercise tact and judgment. If the…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Competence, Competency Based Education, Education Work Relationship
Literacy Beat, 1987
A seminar was held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in August 1987 on the subject, "Illiteracy and the Underclass: Are They Permanent?" The contributions of Chall, Comer, Epstein, Dash, and Rivera identified where illiteracy problems begin--in families with intergenerational patterns of illiteracy. Problems in estimating the numbers of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Blacks
