Universal Adult Literacy: Policy Myths and Realities

Stephen P. Heyneman

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1992, vol. 520, issue 1, 27-31

Abstract: There is not the slightest doubt that literacy is good and its effects significant, but the virtues of literacy have occasionally been promoted in isolation from competing social objectives. This article notes three past mistakes in advocating literacy programs and suggests that future arguments would be more effective if past mistakes were taken into account.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716292520001004

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