August 19th, 2010
Category: Literacy Skills
Tags: Americans, Every, illiterate, Know, nearly
“Illiteracy on the rise in America”
By Larry Roberts
14 October, 1998
“According to a recent US government report, The State of Literacy in America, released by the National Institute for Literacy (NIL), there has been a significant growth in illiteracy in America. Over 90 million US adults, nearly one out of two, are functionally illiterate or near illiterate, without the minimum skills required in a modern society.
The report is a devastating portrait of the social conditions in capitalist America, the country generally portrayed as the most advanced in the world. Out of 191 million adults in the US, as many as 44…
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August 12th, 2010
Category: Illiteracy ARTICLES
Tags: Biblically, Christian, Education, illiterate
Why, in a culture where nearly everyone can read, has access to a Bible, and has a church on every corner, is there such biblical illiteracy? I believe the answer to this question is to be found springing from the society we are a part of:
First, there is a diminished stress on education. We see this in lowered national standards. Lowered expectations. Lowered requirements. We emphasize “feeling good” about yourself and therefore we accept mediocrity. Defining educational excellence and striving for it is old-fashioned and exclusionary.
Second, there is an emphasis on “rights” over “responsibility.” The phrases are so common they are…
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August 11th, 2010
Category: Illiteracy ARTICLES
Tags: illiterate, None, remain, shall
None shall remain illiterate
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
When India was adopting Constitution of India, they specifically directed the state that they should take efforts and none should be left illiterate. They did not talk of proper education because they knew that they shall not be able to give proper education to the citizens of India and therefore, they talked about illiteracy and if we have an introspection, even this target could not achieved and we have wasted about six decades.
We know what is proper education and that could mean that where the students are obliged to come for…
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April 16th, 2010
Category: Literacy Schools
Tags: diplomas, Florida, florida state football, florida state football illiterate, Football, have to, High, illiterate, players, san diego chargers, School, Start, States
On today’s episode of Outside the Lines on ESPN, they talked about Florida State’s academic scandal. Florida State, which mostly admits honor roll students, was admitting football players with IQs as low as 60. Many of these players were unable to read. Large portions of the Florida State football team were placed into the school’s easiest major and their assignments were done for them by tutors. One of the players who allegedly was illiterate was current San Diego Chargers starting cornerback Antonio Cromartie.
How exactly can somebody who is unable to read or write at even an elementary level acquire a…
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April 11th, 2010
Category: Literacy Programs
Tags: Chicago, cousins, Help, illiterate, Learn, Programs, Read, Teen, Write
Ok. So I have these two cousins, ages 13 and 15, who have not gone to school, EVER!! Their mother is a welfare accepting loser who won’t buy them school clothes and is too lazy to get them up in the mornings for school. So they never went.
I just finished college myself so I am in no position to take care of them (I’m only 23) but I would like to help them some how. Anyone know of any programs in Chicago to help them learn to read and write? Or any childrens books or literacy systems that might help…
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April 10th, 2010
Category: Literacy Programs
Tags: Chicagoland, cousins, Help, illiterate, Learn, Programs, Read, Teen, Write
Ok. So I have these two cousins, ages 13 and 15, who have not gone to school, EVER!! Their mother is a welfare accepting loser who won’t buy them school clothes and is too lazy to get them up in the mornings for school. So they never went.
I just finished college myself so I am in no position to take care of them (I’m only 23) but I would like to help them some how. Anyone know of any programs in Chicago to help them learn to read and write? Or any childrens books or literacy systems that might help…
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April 3rd, 2010
Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: British, illiterate, Literacy, People, Start
Considering that England is the home of the English language, I find it rather abhorrent that we are falling way behind in literacy levels compared to other European states and the US.
I enter UK chatrooms sometimes, and the amount of people that simply cannot spell or tell the difference between words such as “there / their / they’re,” and more commonly “your / you’re” astounds me.
Not only chatrooms, but peoples comments on Facebook and other websites. I see FAR more people that have no grip on spelling than I do people who can spell very well…
For the record,…
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I am looking for suggestions on finding reading material for a 40 something male who reads at a 4th grade level. I tried looking for books geared toward 4th graders but of course they are of no interest to him and books geared towards adults are too advanced for him.
