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Literacy & EducationTHE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT LEARNING IS THAT NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU. –B.B. K ING
What is Literacy?
LETS GET TO THE WORDS OF IT.
A Snapshot.• Over ‘30’ Literacy Types recognized.
• Top Four– Basic Reading & Writing Skills– Information Literacy– Numeracy Literacy– Computer / Technological Literacy
• Two Primary Literacy Segments– Basic Reading & Writing Literacy– Functional Literacy
The State of Literacy: The Problem.
OUR WORLD.
More than 793 million adults around the
world cannot read.
Females account for 2 of 3 illiterate adults, making
gender equality even harder to achieve.
In countries with literacy below 40%, per capital
income is estimated at $600 per year.
Illiteracy costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year through lost job opportunities and the costs of
unemployment and ill health…
… costs China $136 billion per year.
… costs United States $300 billion per year.
… costs Sudan $486 million per year.
… costs Bandgladesh $1.4 billion per year.
The State of Literacy: The Problem.
OUR NATION.
An estimated 32 million adults, of 1 in 7, are
challenged with lowliteracy rates.
The US Department of Education found,
41% to 44% of U.S. adults in the lowest level on the literacy scale are living in poverty.
An estimated 63% of Prison Inmates score in the
lowestlevels of literacy.
The average literacy score of native-born adults ranked 10th of 17
high-income countries.
There have been no improvements in literacy rates since 1993.
The State of Literacy: The Problem.
OUR COUNTY. OUR CITY. OUR L IVES.
53 % of Los Angeles working-age population, or 3.8 million
people, have low literacy skills.
166,000 of Long Beach adults are estimated to have below-working
standard literacy rates.
This equals 1 in 3 adults.
Last year, Long Beach unified experienced a drop-out rate
of 14.7%, or nearly 1,000
students.
Lack of writing & math preparation into California’s
higher education costs the state up to $14 billion a year.
Solving Illiteracy: The Solution.
OUR WORLD.
An African Explorer & Words.Bringing Books to over 33 poor African countries.
Kingsley Holgate, African AdventuresFunded by Rotary Foundation
• African Explorer, Kingsley Holgate
• Partnership with 16 US & African Rotary Clubs.
• Distributed ‘mobile libraries’ of 19 containers with 950,000 books around Rim of African Countries.
• Containers converted into classrooms, medical clinics, libraries.
Job Skills for the unskilled.Providing opportunities to address India’s educational quality.
EduBridgeIndia, Funded by the Acumen Fund
• Over 180 million unskilled students in India.
• India faces critical shortages in skilled labor, despite 2 million monthly job seekers.
• For 90 USD, students enter placement program catering to students with diplomas.
• Program guarantees job placement.
• Students will typically be first formally employees in family and earn salaries up to 110 USD per month.
Solving Illiteracy: The Solution.
OUR NATION.
Dolly Parton: Bringing words to youth.Partnership with Rotary to help bring over 40,000,000 books to children internationally.
Imagination LibraryDolly Parton Foundation
• Rotary Club sponsorship has brought the program to over 300 communities.
• Each month, Imagination Library mails an age-appropriate book to the children in the program.
• 85% of families in program read to their children every day.
• There are over 700,000 children enrolled in the ‘Imagination Library’ today.
An online portal for learning.Providing free access to education for literacy challenged Americans.
USA LearnsU.S. Department of Education
• Promotes programs helping adults get basic skills they need.
• Major areas are Basic Education, Secondary Education and ESL skills.
• Provides stories and challenges for participants to work through to build skills.
• Some topics include from Going Places, Money, Housing, Health and Working.
Solving Illiteracy: The Solution.
OUR COUNTY. OUR CITY. OUR L IVES.
Rotary helps young readers in local schools.Provided over 150,000 library books to students in local schools.
Reading by NineRotary Long Beach
• Since 1999, Long Beach Rotary has provided over 150,000 books to local students and 62 school elementary school libraries.
• Over 275,000 has been contributed by Long Beach Rotary to the Reading by Nine Program.
• Volunteers regularly visit local Long Beach schools to read books to children that were provided by the donations cited.
Learning together: A family literacy program.Providing Long Beach families the opportunity to learn.
Toyota Family Literacy Program, Long Beach, CA
• Enables adults with children 1 to 8 to enroll in education alongside their children.
• A variety of programs provide opportunities for dedicated, interactive and vocational adult education.
• Adults in program: 73% of participants are at or below the poverty level, 61% have not passed 9th grade.
• Children in program: 91% improvement in grades, in comparison with classmates
• 90% program retention rate (compared to 50% drop-out rate nationally).
• Noted as flagship model for Adult Literacy Program.
Achieving Literacy: The Opportunity.
OUR RESPONSIBIL ITY.
What is next…?