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Literacy & education
This document discusses global and local literacy issues and potential solutions. Over 793 million adults worldwide are illiterate, costing the global economy over $1 trillion annually. In the US, 32 million adults have low literacy skills, and 63% of prison inmates score at the lowest literacy levels. Locally in Long Beach, 1 in 3 adults have below basic literacy. Several programs aim to address these issues by providing books, education, and job skills training around the world and in local communities. Rotary clubs internationally and in Long Beach donate books and support family literacy programs to help solve literacy challenges.
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- 1. Literacy & Education THEBEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT LEARNING IS THAT NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU. –B.B. KING
- 3. What is Literacy? LETSGET TO THE WORDS OF IT.
- 4. 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
- 5. The State ofLiteracy: The Problem. OUR WORLD.
- 7. More than 793million adults around the world cannot read.
- 9. Females account for2 of 3 illiterate adults, making gender equality even harder to achieve.
- 11. In countries withliteracy below 40%, per capital income is estimated at $600 per year.
- 13. Illiteracy costs theglobal 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.
- 14. The State ofLiteracy: The Problem. OUR NATION.
- 16. An estimated 32million adults, of 1 in 7, are challenged with low literacy rates.
- 18. The US Departmentof Education found, 41% to 44% of U.S. adults in the lowest level on the literacy scale are living in poverty.
- 20. An estimated 63%of Prison Inmates score in the lowest levels of literacy.
- 22. The average literacyscore of native- born adults ranked 10th of 17 high-income countries.
- 24. There have beenno improvements in literacy rates since 1993.
- 25. The State ofLiteracy: The Problem. OUR COUNTY. OUR CITY. OUR LIVES.
- 26. 53 % ofLos Angeles working-age population, or 3.8 million people, have low literacy skills.
- 28. 166,000 of LongBeach adults are estimated to have below-working standard literacy rates. This equals 1 in 3 adults.
- 30. Last year, LongBeach unified experienced a drop-out rate of 14.7%, or nearly 1,000 students.
- 32. Lack of writing& math preparation into California’s higher education costs the state up to $14 billion a year.
- 33. Solving Illiteracy: TheSolution. OUR WORLD.
- 34. An African Explorer & Words. BringingBooks to over 33 poor African countries.
- 35. Kingsley Holgate, AfricanAdventures Funded 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.
- 36. Job Skills for theunskilled. Providing opportunities to address India’s educational quality.
- 37. EduBridge India, Funded bythe 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.
- 38. Solving Illiteracy: TheSolution. OUR NATION.
- 39. Dolly Parton: Bringing words to youth. Partnershipwith Rotary to help bring over 40,000,000 books to children internationally.
- 40. Imagination Library Dolly PartonFoundation • 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.
- 41. An online portal for learning. Providingfree access to education for literacy challenged Americans.
- 42. USA Learns U.S. Departmentof 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.
- 43. Solving Illiteracy: TheSolution. OUR COUNTY. OUR CITY. OUR LIVES.
- 44. Rotary helps young readers inlocal schools. Provided over 150,000 library books to students in local schools.
- 45. Reading by Nine RotaryLong 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.
- 46. Learning together: A family literacy program. Providing LongBeach families the opportunity to learn.
- 47. Toyota Family LiteracyProgram, 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.
- 48. Achieving Literacy: TheOpportunity. OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
- 50.
Editor's Notes
- #5 Basic Reading & Writing SkillsInformation Literacy: Ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.Numeracy Literacy: Numeracy skills consist of comprehending fundamental mathematics like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.Computer Literacy: Ability to use technology efficiently, with a range of skills covering levels from elementary use to programming and advanced problem solving.Two Primary:Basic: Ability to Read & WriteFunctional: Ability to operate day-to-day tasks
- #17 Level 1 Literacy: Locate expiration on driver’s license (CAN) / Locate an intersection on a street map (CANNOT) (20%)Level 2 Literacy: Determine price between two tickets (CAN) / Write a short letter explaining a billing error (CANNOT) (27%)Level 3 Literacy: Use a bus schedule to get to a destination by a specific time (CAN) / Explain the difference between two types of employee benefits (CANNOT)
- #21 Level 1 Literacy: Locate expiration on driver’s license (CAN) / Locate an intersection on a street map (CANNOT) (20%)Level 2 Literacy: Determine price between two tickets (CAN) / Write a short letter explaining a billing error (CANNOT) (27%)Level 3 Literacy: Use a bus schedule to get to a destination by a specific time (CAN) / Explain the difference between two types of employee benefits (CANNOT)
- #23 Our jobs have increased in technical requirements & our education system hasn’t caught up.We have 50 different types of education systems.
- #43 Funded by U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy
- #48 Funded by U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy