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Do-Gooding the Literacy Issue

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Do-Gooding the Literacy Issue

Schalit, Naomi; Donovan, Suzanne
Adult Learning , Volume 2 (8): 6 – Jun 1, 1991
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SAGE
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© 1991 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
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1045-1595
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2162-4070
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10.1177/104515959100200808
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It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands 0/the Do-Gooding people themselves, and that, too, 0/the people with a certain degree 0/instruction. This it is the business 0/the The Literacy Issue state to effect and on a general plan. (Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1786) Naomi SchaUt and Suzanne Donovan illions of adults in the United has assisted in launching the Colorado Literacy States are illiterate. And many Hotline, serves on the board of directors of a local literacy group, and helps funnel Scripps newspaper publishers have made Howard Foundation grants to literacy projects. it the business of their papers to But when News Editor Jay Ambrose, founding teach illiterate Americans how to read. Commit­ chair of the American Society of Newspaper tees have been formed, luncheons attended, money donated and speeches made. Scared to Editors' literacy committee, was asked who death by the specter of millions of people who covers illiteracy for his paper, he said, "I can't can't read their pages, publishers are engaged in tell you that right at the moment we are an all-out effort to save democracy and, inci­ covering literacy in a very

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Published: Jun 1, 1991

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