By William Cope Moyers, Katherine Ketcham

Publish yr note: initially released in 2006
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Written by way of the vice chairman of Hazelton therapy heart. It's required examining for all scholars.

Unlike a few well known memoirs that experience fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug dependancy, damaged is a true-life story of restoration that stuns and conjures up with almost each web page. The eldest son of journalist invoice Moyers, William Cope Moyers relates with unforgettable readability the tale of the way a tender guy with each virtue stumbled on himself spiraling right into a love affair with crack cocaine that led him to the threshold of death—and how a deep spirituality allowed him to beat his disgrace, rework his existence, and devote himself to altering America's politics of dependancy.

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The Sample for NALS and NAAL For both assessments, data were collected via a household survey of a stratified random sample of adults age 16 and older. Additional samples were obtained in specific states in order to provide state-level results; this portion of the assessment was referred to as the State Adult Literacy Survey. In 1992, 12 states participated (California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington); in 2003, 6 states participated (Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma).

In preparation for the release of the 2003 results, the Department of Education decided to focus specific attention on how NAAL results should be reported and interpreted. The department sought advice from the NRC and requested that its Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) recommend performance levels to use in reporting NAAL results. The Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy was established to provide this advice. The committee included individuals with a broad array of expertise, including adult education, educational measurement and standard setting, English for speakers of other languages, literacy and literacy measurement, psychology, political science, public health, sociology, statistics, and survey methodology.

Individual is able to handle basic reading, writing, and computational tasks related to life roles, such as completing medical forms, order forms, or job applications. • Can read simple charts, graphs, labels, and payroll stubs and simple authentic material if familiar with the topic. , fax machine, computer operation). • The individual can qualify for entrylevel jobs that require following basic written instructions and diagrams with assistance, such as oral clarification. • Can write a short report or message to fellow workers.

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