American Literacy Council

About This Association

The American Literacy Council is a non-profit organization created by scholars in 1876 to provide rural educators with literacy tools and methods appropriate for schools at that time. Their focus included considerable linguistic research related to the study of illogical spelling standards that underlie standard English spelling. Major names and organizations supported their efforts including Andrew Carnegie, Melvin Dewey, many book authors, and newspaper editors of that time period. The organization continued, evolving to be renamed "The American Literacy Council."

Publications

Dictionary of Simplified American Spelling

Conventions

Annual

Specialties:

1. Communications

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