Have you ever wondered how many people were literate in Colonial America? Or what literacy even meant to them? Let’s look at some statistics to get an idea of how literate these people actually were!

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Keller-Cohen, Deborah. "Rethinking Literacy: Comparing Colonial and Contemporary America." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1993): 288-307.

Monaghan, Jennifer E. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America: Literacy Instruction and Acquisition in a Cultural Context. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

U.S. Department of Education. Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
(PIAAC). [ Ссылка ]

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