TITLE

Is Anybody Out There?: A closer look at the dire picture unearthed in the NEA's "Reading at Risk" study turns up some hopeful signs

AUTHOR(S)

Dawkins, Wayne

PUB. DATE

May 2005

SOURCE

Black Issues Book Review;May/Jun2005, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p10

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on decline in literary reading among consumers in the U.S. according to a study of the National Endowment for the Arts. Comparison between reading rates among Blacks in 1982, 1992 and 2002 by gender and age; Factors that contributed to decline in reading habits among children according to the study; Increase in use of public library in 2003 and 2004.

ACCESSION #

16882908

Tags: READING;  LITERATURE;  BLACKS;  BOOKS & reading

 

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