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This study will synthesize the behavioral and cognitive sciences, education, and neuroscience research on literacy to understand its applicability to adolescent and adult populations. It will review and analyze the implications of this research for instructional practices used to teach reading in adolescent and adult literacy programs and provide a roadmap for a more systemic approach to subsequent research, practice, and policy.
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More than an estimated 90 million adults in the United States lack the literacy skills needed for fully productive and secure lives. The effects of this shortfall are many: Adults with low literacy have lower rates of participation in the labor force and lower earnings when they do have jobs, for ex...
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