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69%
of 4th graders read below the ‘proficiency level’
60% remain below it in the 12th
grade
National
Assessment of Educational Progress 1998 Reading Report Card
The
first casualty is self esteem:
they soon grow ashamed…
National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development
35% of children with reading disabilities drop out of school, a
rate twice that of their classmates.
50%
of juvenile delinquents manifest some kind of learning
disability, primarily in the area of reading.
National
Center for Learning Disabilities
about
half of youths with a history of substance abuse have reading
problems.
National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
42
million
adult Americans can't read; 50 million
can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or
5th grade reading level
The
National Right to Read Foundation
Literacy experts believe that adults
with skills at Levels 1 and 2 (the 90+
million referred to above) lack a sufficient
foundation of basic skills to function successfully in
our society.
Literacy
Volunteers of America, Inc
A
conservative estimate of federal government expenditures on
literacy is more than ten
billion dollars each year and growing steadily.
An
additional 237 billion dollars a
year in unrealized earnings is forfeited by persons who lack
basic reading skills, according to Literacy Volunteers of
America.
The
National Right to Read Foundation
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