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9 Comments Category: Illiteracy HELP
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I am trying to date this term as back as possible.

Since as for me, I only heard it for the first time in my country in the nineties.

(I’m sure if this applied in other countries before, though…)

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• Center for Disability Information & Referral: National Braille …
  National Braille Literacy Month and the TBBL. For resources in braille, visit Indiana’s Talking Book & Braille Library in Indianapolis. The TBBL is part of a national network funded by the National Library of Congress with hundreds of …

• Class 4H: Literacy today
  Literacy today. Today we revised dictionary work, noting the following points: The first and last words on a dictionary page are written at the top, so you can see quickly whether you are on the right page without having to read all the …

• Wyoming governor advises no funding for Even Start –…

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• JPL Youth Services Programs: I Can Read Club
  I Can Read Club. (Grades K-2) Parents share and explore literacy with your children who are emergent readers. Phone registration is required and begins January 11. Please call (815)740-2663. Black Road Branch: January 18-April 12, …

• Teaching children to read – Straight Dope Message Board
  Teaching a child to read is not a one-off thing. Some of the skills I’ve mentioned (choosing a book, holding it, turning pages) are part of what’s called emergent literacy, the initial skills necessary to reading. Before a kid can read …

• abcreads: New Year's Reading Challenges
  The challenge could be reading 3 science…

3 Comments Category: Illiteracy HELP
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Do you feel that the “language” generally used in Internet chat rooms, sites such as this one, and the abbreviated language used in cellular phone messages are contributing to the functional illiteracy of our culture? Do you see and hear degradations in language skills that you believe are attributable to these media? I would be especially interested in the viewpoints of educators.

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“The U.S. ranks 49th among 156 countries in literacy and its functional illiteracy rate is five times higher than Cuba’s. Twenty per cent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth and 17 per cent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day. Twenty per cent can’t find the U.S. on a world map. And according to the New York Times, U.S. workers are so badly educated and lack so many basic skills that American business spends $30 billion a year on remedial training.” Tyee

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Could you also point out a source that states that?

(I did some research but I couldn’t find anything in this regard).

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A Concise History of Education of Teachers, of Teacher Training and Teaching

(ptint version of author’s site www.geocities.com/histedu

Western history of teacher training, education history, teaching theories, education of teachers, modern history od education, began in early 18th century Germany: teaching seminaries educating teachers were the first formal teacher training in Western history of education and teaching.

(History of education had 2nd century-BC Greek Spartan free public education, Athenian Academy until age 18 and higher Academy and Lyceum; Roman private formal schooling in tiers; China’s 1st century-BC administrator examinations; 1st century Jewish informal Cul’ Tura general education; Islam’s 9th century universities [madrasahs]; 16th century…

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Dolch = Dyslexia. Why Sight Words do not work. Why we have 50000000 functional illiterates. (The intense sound track suggests what it must be like to be made illiterate by your own school.) (Bruce Deitrick Price / Improve-Education.org) look-say phonics Rudolph Flesch sight words Dolch Words balanced literacy John Dewey functional illiteracy, Frank smith, kindergarten, pre-k, k-12, reading,
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1 Comment Category: Illiteracy ARTICLES
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For most of the past decade, a number of editorial writers, politicians, members of the clergy, and other pundits have described America as a nation in some sort of crisis. They point to a growing number of people who drop out of high school, who are living on probation, parole, or in prison, who are victims of domestic or criminal assault, who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, who are infected with sexually transmitted disease, who are having abortions, who are giving birth outside of marriage, who are getting divorced, or who are relying on Ritalin, Xanax or Prozac to…

6 Comments Category: Illiteracy ARTICLES
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We often see articles in newspapers or magazines about the shocking extent of poverty in America or some other English-speaking nation. But how often do the articles examine the cause of the poverty? I cannot remember ever seeing such an article. Many persons of influence — celebrities, educators, and politicians — bemoan the extent of poverty. Many of them want to help. Some of them actually do help, but the help is almost always something involving providing money or physical items to temporarily relieve the symptoms — the pain and suffering brought on by poverty. It is almost never something…