Table 5.1a. Percentage of 8th-grade students in public schools with selected literacy resources at home, by race/ethnicity: 2007

Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008

NCES 2008-084
September 2008

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Table 5.1a. Percentage of 8th-grade students in public schools with selected literacy resources at home, by race/ethnicity: 2007

Race/ethnicity	More than 25 books	An encyclopedia	Regular access to magazines	Regular access to newspapers
Total¹	65	74	67	41
White	75	78	73	44
Black	53	73	61	41
Hispanic	41	63	53	30
Asian/Pacific Islander	67	76	56	38
American Indian/Alaska Native	56	66	57	39

¹ Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown.

NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Reading Assessment, retrieved January 2008 from http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde/.

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