Chapter 1: The History of Literacy and the History of Readers

Review of Research in Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 11-53

  Kaestle, Carl F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84970331369     PISSN: 0091732X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0091732X012001011     Document Type: Article

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