Title: Illiterate America /
Authors: Kozol, Jonathan.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday,
Physical description: xvii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: Describes the economic and human costs of illiteracy using hard statistics and heartrending stories.
Contents: pt. 1. Invisible minority : the growing crisis of illiterate America -- A third of the nation cannot read these words -- Matters of equivocation : dangers of the numbers game --The price we pay -- The human cost of an illiterate society -- The disenfranchised : silent and unseen -- What is not being done? -- The pedagogic time bomb : the children of nonreaders -- Breaking the cycle : the mandate for a national response -- Summer 1983 -- pt. 2. A plan to mobilize illiterate America -- The myth of impotence : what should be done? -- Unearthing seeds of fire : a plan to mobilize illiterate America -- Oral history : the people speak their word -- Cause for celebration (when the people speak, the nation sometimes has a chance to hear) -- pt. 3. Beyond utility -- Technological obsession -- The obligation of the universities -- Beyond utility : literacy redefined -- Borders -- Inscriptions -- Afterword : the prospects for the generation now in public school.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Literacy--United States.