Literacy Then and Now

Alice S. Horning is Professor Emerita of Writing and Rhetoric/Linguistics at Oakland University. Her Ph.D. is from Michigan State University where she started her career focusing on the intersection of reading and writing. Her work has appeared in the major professional journals and in books.

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Introduction – Religious Organizations’ Support for Literacy – Non-Governmental Organizations and Literacy – Governmental Organizations and Literacy – Literacy in K–12 Schools – College and University Literacy – Literacy Then and Now: Convergence – Appendix: Selected Dates of Key Events in US History 1880–1930 – References – Index.

“Reading Alice S. Horning’s exhaustive new book is rather like opening one of those gift boxes which contains innumerable smaller boxes, one after another, each box a new discovery. The opening chapter defines readers and reading in new and interesting ways, seeming to wrap up the topic. But a series of chapters follows, each seeing reading and literacy through new sets of lenses, each offering new insights. I know of nobody who has written or thought this deeply about what she calls the 'definition, measurement, and methodology' of literacy. You will never read or teach in quite the same way after digesting this book.”—Edward M. White, University of Arizona