Title Literacy in American lives / Deborah Brandt.

Descript 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247). Awards University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, 2003. Contents Literacy, opportunity and economic change -- Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America -- Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write -- The power of it : sponsors of literacy in African American lives -- The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory -- The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century. Summary Traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers, parents, and citizens--they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the start of the twenty-first century. Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Literacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy. Literacy. (OCoLC)fst00999859 United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 Schreib- und Lesefa⁺higkeit Analphabetismus USA. 1900-1999 ISBN 0511013329 (electronic bk.) 9780511013324 (electronic bk.) 0511174241 (electronic bk.) 9780511174247 (electronic bk.) 9780521783156 0521783151 0521003067 9780521003063 9780511810237 0511810237 9786610432653 6610432651 1107120853 9781107120853 0511153953 9780511153952 0511302258 9780511302251 0511046383 9780511046384 1280432659 9781280432651 0521783151 (Cloth)