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On Thursday, Carlyle instead sent as its emissaries several students from Junior Achievement, a nonprofit financial literacy group.

At the Carnegie, for example, there has been a literacy group for people for whom English is not a first language and a book group for elderly people.

"Our response to the interest rates going up was to sell our house instead of refinance," said Lori Mackey, a children's author and the founder of a financial literacy group for children.

Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Heather Stone/Chicago News Cooperative Dustin Walsh, book director for the literacy group Open Books, in the new store in River North.

The groom's mother is a member of the advisory board of Vermont Reading Partners, a nonprofit volunteer literacy group in Manchester, where until last year she was a co-president.

Ms. Paardecamp, who is the literacy group's treasurer and serves on its board, said she became more focused on the literacy issue when she realized it was becoming more difficult to hire qualified employees.

Questionnaires were completed during class time, where children were asked to sit in their literacy groups (table groupings based on their ability in literacy).

It is a joint project of two literacy groups: the Children's Book Council of New York and the International Reading Association, based in Newark, Del.

Some literacy groups say those who have English proficiency below the sixth-grade level are illiterate; other groups set the bar at the eighth grade.

With the new attention to literacy, groups that serve the poor are casting doubt on the social programs born in in the 1960's.

It prohibited religious gatherings without prior Government approval, nationalized a nationwide system of Catholic primary and secondary schools and closed a network of Catholic literacy groups, which taught 300,000 children and adults.