Table 5.3. Percentage of 8th-grade students in public schools with selected literacy resources at home, by race/ethnicity: 2003
Race/ethnicity
More than
25 books
An encyclopedia
Regular access to magazines
Regular access to newspapers
Total
70.0
82.9
71.6
46.5
White, non-Hispanic
79.6
87.1
77.6
50.1
Black, non-Hispanic
58.0
79.5
66.4
44.5
Hispanic
45.5
70.5
57.4
34.1
Asian/Pacific Islander
69.4
83.1
60.1
46.1
American Indian/Alaska Native
62.4
75.1
63.0
46.3
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Reading Assessment, 2003.