why education.?

WHAT IS LITERACY?.
Literacy is the ability to read, write, compute, and use technology at a level that enables an individual to reach his or her full potential as a parent, employee, and/or community member.

Why EDUCATION?.
Education at all levels in the United States has reached the crisis stage. The United States Department of Education estimates that functional illiteracy--

-- plagues 40,000,000 Americans (some are estimating the number close to 70,000,000).

-- 50,000,000 + Americans read below the 6th grade level.

-- 15% of all American High School seniors are illiterate.

-- 40% of minority high school seniors are illiterate.

-- Dropout rate exceeds 55% in many metropolitan school districts.

-- Functional illiteracy grows each year by more

than 2,200,000 individuals.

-- 14% of the country's adult population- don't read well enough to understand a newspaper story written at the eighth grade level or fill out a job application adequately.

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** The United States ranks fifth on adult literacy skills when compared to other industrialized nations.

**   Low adult literacy can be connected to almost every socio-economic issue in the United States:

          -- More than 85 percent of juvenile offenders are functionally illiterate.
          -- More than 70 percent of all state and federal corrections inmates can barely read and write.
          -- Low health literacy costs between $ 106 billion and $236 billion each year in the U.S. - 7 to 17 percent of all health care spending.
          -- The effects of low literacy cost the U.S. $225 billion or more each year due to non productivity in the workforce, crime, and loss of tax
               revenue due to unemployment.

FUNCTIONAL ILLITERACY IS GROWING EACH YEAR BY MORE THAN 2.2 MILLION

Every year at least a million of these functional illiterates graduate from America's high schools, the proud owners of meaningless diplomas. Chester E. Finn, Jr., a professor at Vanderbilt University writing in the Monthly Commentary, cites the dismal findings of the National Assessment of Education Process. These findings are even bleaker. "Just 5% of seventeen year old high school students can read well enough to understand and use information found in technical materials, literacy essays, and historical documents. Barely 6% of them can solve multi-level math problems and use basic algebra." Although they may be able to read simple articles, they cannot read and comprehend more technical material like one would encounter in the workplace. That leaves 95% of American seventeen year olds struggling to function in the real world.

WHERE WOULD YOU BE WITHOUT EDUCATION?

Most of us have never really thought about what it means to be uneducated. For most of you reading this, the basics of reading, writing, and communicating verbally is done without thinking about it. But what if you were not able to do these things sufficiently to get a job or graduate from high school or college? In almost all areas of our nation, schooling is available, yet statistics show many cannot read or write, leaving them dysfunctional in our society. Put yourself in their shoes. Where would you be today if you could not read a newspaper, your bills, advertising, etc? What if you had to rely on someone else to read your mail to you and tell you how much your electric bill was for this month?

In many cases, functional illiteracy is a symptom of the problem. The real problem underlying this issue of not being able to read is often ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, or other learning difficulties. These are problems that our mainstream educational systems have not handled effectively through the years. Statistics reveal that more and more students are "falling through the cracks".

A REAL SOLUTION.

Now, what if someone offered you a solution, so that within a few months you could not only read, but also process and retain information so you could function in a job or continue your education. We provide the mental skills to enable a person to process, store, and retrieve information in large amounts, in short periods of time, overcoming previous obstacles or learning difficulties. For over twenty-five-years, we have been making a difference-- one person at a time. Because of the success we have seen in the lives of those going through our program, we want to reach hundreds --no--thousands more. Make a decision to help. What we offer is logical, concrete solutions to functional illiteracy. You can make a difference! click here to help.

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