By Linda Ronstadt
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Twelve-time Grammy winner Linda Ronstadt weaves jointly a charming tale of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her upward thrust to stardom within the Southern California song scene of the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s.
Born right into a musical relations, Ronstadt’s formative years was once choked with every little thing from Hank Williams to Gilbert and Sullivan, Mexican people song to jazz and opera. Her creative interest blossomed early, and he or she and her siblings started acting their very own song for a person who might listen.
When she arrived in la the folk-rock flow was once simply commencing to bloom, and after the dissolution of her first band, Ronstadt went out on her personal and fast discovered good fortune. As a part of the coterie that performed on the Troubadour membership in West Hollywood, she helped outline the musical type that ruled American track within the Seventies, and have become the main winning woman artist of the last decade. She has bought greater than a hundred million documents, gained a variety of awards, toured around the globe, and collaborated with legends comparable to Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Aaron Neville, J.D. Souther, Randy Newman, Neil younger, Bette Midler, and Frank Sinatra, in addition to Homer Simpson and Kermit the Frog. by the point she retired in 2009, Ronstadt had spent 4 a long time as some of the most renowned singers on the earth, turning into the 1st girl artist in renowned tune to free up 4 consecutive platinum albums.
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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.