Adult literacy in the United States is assessed through national and international studies conducted by various government agencies and private research organizations. The most recent comprehensive da
Native youth in front of Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania c.1900
President George W. Bush participates in a reading demonstration the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla.
First Lady Barbara Bush with New York City school children at the UNESCO International Literacy Day celebration in 1989 (the same year that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy was launched)
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As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill Education
Literacy in the United States
…job, providing for their families, or even reading a story to their children. For adults, the library might be the only source for a literacy program. Books in the United States History of education in the United States…
Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz children's book, 1900; published by George M. Hill Company, Chicago
Dust jacket of The Great Gatsby, 1925; published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Bestseller Joy of Cooking cookbook, 1975 edition, first published in 1931
Bookshop, Chicago, 1940