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May 31, 2022 · Without intervention, illiteracy has wide-reaching and devastating consequences, condemning its sufferers to shame, isolation, and poverty. Kirsten Levinsohn, executive director of New Haven Reads, a New Haven-based organization that works to foster children’s literacy skills, explains current legislative and community efforts to address this ...
Nov 7, 2017 · Illiteracy affects 18% of US adults (approximately 57.4 million people), most commonly impacting black people, Hispanic people, and low-income individuals. Illiteracy is perpetuated from one generation to the next and leads to higher chances of unemployment and poverty.
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Mar 10, 2021 · It’s a crisis hidden in plain sight, as about 20 percent of people in the United States cannot read at all and 50 percent of adults can’t read to pass an eighth-grade level.
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The risks to people who can’t read or can barely read are significant, including: It’s not just that low literacy leads to poverty and poverty to poor health care. Even after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, the relationship between reading level and health remains. Studies have linked low literacy to problems with use of preventive ...
At first glance, things have improved drastically over the past two centuries. Our World in Data, an online publication that tracks global problems, notes that only 12 percent of the global population could read in 1820, while today 12 percent can’tread. That impressive turnaround helped reduce inequalities within industrialized countries, includin...
Getting children to read at their grade level is, as mentioned above, a critical factor in setting them up for future literacy. Risk factors include whether the family has access to books and whether children are being read to before they can read themselves. The National Institute of Literacy reports that only about half of children are read to da...
Mar 5, 2018 · In the United States, literacy rates vary greatly between racial and socio-economic groups. Even today, minorities are still oppressed by lower literacy levels. Literacy continues to be a mechanism of social control and oppression.
As with many health conditions (e.g., diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, cancer), “diverse” communities suffer disproportionally. COVID-19 is only the most recent example with death rates and serious manifestations of the virus far outpacing the relative impact on white America.
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Aug 30, 2024 · This blog post explores the critical issue of illiteracy and low reading rates in the United States. Experts discuss the far-reaching consequences of this problem and advocate for a comprehensive approach to improve literacy, including family engagement, early childhood education, and explicit teaching of decoding and word recognition.
