Description: Foreword by Paul Simon Issues in Adult Literacy Introduction: Adult Literacy Research and the National Adult Literacy Survey by M Cecil Smith and Stephen Reder Literacy in America: A Brief Overview of the NALS by Irwin S. Kirsch Adult Education and Literacy Public Policy: What It Is and How It Is Shaped by Alice Johnson and Andrew Hartman Dimensionality and Construct Validity of the NALS Assessment by Stephen Reder The Contexts of Adult Literacy Work, School, and Literacy by Jeremy D. Finn and Susan B. Gerber Adults' Reading Practices and Their Associations with Literacy Proficiencies by M Cecil Smith and Janet K. Sheehan Literacy Gender Gaps: Evidence from the NALS by Lynn Friedman and Ernest Deavenport Literacy Habits and Political Participation by Richard L. Venezky and David Kaplan Community College Literacy: Is the Middle Right? by Joseph Howard and Wayne S. Obetz Literacy Selection and Literacy Development: Structural Equation Models of the Reciprocal Effects of Education and Literacy by Stephen Reder Literacy Proficiency among Adults with Self-Reported Learning Disabilities by Susan A. Vogel and Stephen Reder Broader Perspectives in Adult Literacy Family Literacy and Adult Education: Project FLAME by Flora V. Rodrguez-Brown and Maureen A. Meehan Adult Literacy and Health Care by Joanne R. Nurss Index

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