Infographic: Twitter Named Most Illiterate Social Network
Posted on 07/08/2013 3:26:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Keeping with its mission to deepen the community’s understanding of adult illiteracy in the region, the San Diego Council on Literacy (SDCOL) today released Voices and Faces: Literacy in San Diego. This dramatic new documentary tells the story of 13 adults, whose inability to read kept them from meeting their personal and professional needs and achieving their life goals. These 13 people represent the hundreds of thousands of adults in San Diego County and the countless more in America who go through life facing unimaginable obstacles. Often times, they are too embarrassed to tell anyone and live with a painful secret when help is not far away.
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At a recent screening hosted by Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox, the audience learned that San Diego County is home to 440,000 adults who possess only minimal literacy skills; 33 percent of inmates in state and federal institutions are identified as having below basic literacy skills; children whose parents do not read or read well are at high-risk to fail in school; and, research shows that the key to youth success in school are parents who read to their children, having books in the home for children to read and verbal interaction between parents and their children.
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Infographic: Twitter Named Most Illiterate Social Network
How can you get through modern life without reading?
Easy. If you can spell "EBT" you're gonna be fine.
Don’t worry, Big Gov will take care of them.
Send these people to reading class? Start at kindergarten level and worj their way up?
this sounds like a problem with a clear solution.
“Immigration” has been wonderful..../s.
Public schools are wonderful, too.... /s
The controllers in this country WANT a barely literate dumbed down swayed by emotional tricks populace...
How else will they remain in power?
The CRISIS is the Amnesty they are trying to shove down our throats....a “crisis” in “literacy?” It was created by the DEMOCRATS!!!
That’s it, Neumenon, you can’t, and still lead a productive life. My former church offered help in this area: no takers.
And, believe me, they’re incredibly capable when it comes to using them and gaming the system.
Factoid from a decade ago. 70% of Hispanic inmates are illiterate.
this sounds like a problem with a clear solution.
Public education is at least partially responsible for the problem. You can't count on them to fix it.
The reason children can go through 12 years of school still not be able to read and write is because the education establishment is controlled by “educators”.
The first rule of “educators” is more pay, less hours, more benefits for their union members.
As one union leader admitted, he represents the teachers since the children do not pay union dues.
Want to solve this problem?
1. Shut down the Department of Education
2. Forbade public employee unions
3. Return funding and control of school systems back to the local district.
As it is now parents have almost no say in how the school is ran, the subjects being taught, who can teach. Yet teachers will then turn around and blame the parents.
By the third grade a person should be able to read and write. From there they are just building on what they know.
San Diego County? How many of them were born in (and grew up in) this country? We are taking in the dregs of Mexico, the least educated, and wonder why we are seeing an increase in illiteracy? San Diego is a gateway for illegals. In California, more than 25 percent of the population is foreign born and nearly 50 percent speak a language other than English at home.
There was a time in some states in this country that it was ILLEGAL to teach slaves to read.
Now the great-great-grandchildren of those illiterate slaves REFUSE to learn to read because that would be “acting White”.
Reedin’ be actin’ white.
Absent white people, a descent into savagery follows. As witness the history of a good deal of Africa in the ‘post-colonial’ 20th century. The fun has never stopped there since then.
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