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Numeracy strategies for African American students: successful partnerships.
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Childhood Education
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December 22, 2007
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The improving literacy indicators for African Americans in the last century are impressive. In spite of the pre-Civil War laws that banned people from teaching African Americans to read, the illiteracy rate for African Americans declined from 80 percent to 6 percent during the last century (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 1993). A more recent NCES report indicates further evidence of the change in literacy rates. Between 1991 and 1999, the rate of in-home reading increased to 71 percent, the rate of storytelling increased to 45 percent, and the rate of library visitations increased to 35 percent (NCES, 2003). These accomplishments were primarily the results of ...
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