According to the National Education Association, 41 percent of English speaking whites are illiterate, 22 percent are English speaking African Americans, 22 percent are Spanish speaking and 15 percent are non-English speaking people. ... As accounted for in the 1986 publication entitled Making Literacy Programs Work: A Practical Guide for Correctional Educators , specifically for the U.S. ... According to several studies, the prison population represents the single highest concentration of illiterate US adults. ...

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was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Sawdust and rat droppings were mixed into the sausage meat and deviled ham that killed about three thousand U.S. soldiers during the Spanish-American war in 1898. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sincl...

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• Grade Level: High School