Report of the Literacy 2000 Task Force [microform]

This document from the task force charged with assessing Wisconsin's adult illiteracy problem and recommending what to do about it reports that the state has 492,720 residents who are at or below the level of functional illiteracy and another 412,720 considered to be "at-risk" due to...

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Corporate Author: Wisconsin. Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education
Format: Microfilm Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988.
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