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Created: October 12, 2003
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Reading and Literacy in America

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, October 2003.
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This article, which comes out of the University of Minnesota, as judged by its URL, is a good example of a survey on college students' reading habits. Backup.

Leisure Activities On leisure activities and college populations. Info on reading.

Then I'd like you to take a look at Why Gen Y? Newspapers have three years to get it right by Edna Negrón. Backup

Consider the above writings in conjunction with Shirley A. White's Participatory Video, Chapter 8, pp. 195 ff. Lecture and discussion questions.

References:

• The Reading Habits of the Portuguese. Summary of the principal outlines
• Confronting the Newspaper Youth Readership Puzzle Presented 6 June 2002. Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Newspapers In Education Conference. Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Earl J. Wilkinson, Executive Director, INMA.
• UK data on reading of newspapers
• National Household Education Survey (NHES) About half way down the file you'll find data on thosw who read daily newspapers.
• Poverty Measurement Working Papers US Bureau of Statistics.