International Literacy Day, Friday, Sept. 8!
Celebrate YOUR ability to read on Friday, September 8!
From the website: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/literacy/
"Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now close to four billion literate people in the world. However, literacy for all – children, youth and adults - is still an unaccomplished goal and an ever moving target. A combination of ambitious goals, insufficient and parallel efforts, inadequate resources and strategies, and continued underestimation of the magnitude and complexity of the task accounts for this unmet goal. Lessons learnt over recent decades show that meeting the goal of universal literacy calls not only for more effective efforts but also for renewed political will and for doing things differently at all levels - locally, nationally and internationally. "
The UN has also declared that 2003-2012 "...the United Nations Literacy Decade - Education for All... was launched at UN Headquarters on 13 February 2003. It is spearheaded by UNESCO, as the lead agency for the Decade. "Literacy as Freedom" is the theme of the Decade."
Here some Maine literacy statistics:
"According to the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS):
Maine has 400,000 adults (42% of our adult population) functioning at Level 1 and 2.*
Level 1 is defined as adult who can read a little, but not well enough to fill out an application, understand a food label or read a story to a child. According to NALS, about 15% of Maine's adults function at this level.
Level 2 readers can identfy key pieces fo information and perform simple calculations such as those on an order form. According to NALS, about 27% of Maine's adults function at this level. "
More Maine information is available at url:
http://www.mainereads.org/stats.php
From the website: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/literacy/
"Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now close to four billion literate people in the world. However, literacy for all – children, youth and adults - is still an unaccomplished goal and an ever moving target. A combination of ambitious goals, insufficient and parallel efforts, inadequate resources and strategies, and continued underestimation of the magnitude and complexity of the task accounts for this unmet goal. Lessons learnt over recent decades show that meeting the goal of universal literacy calls not only for more effective efforts but also for renewed political will and for doing things differently at all levels - locally, nationally and internationally. "
The UN has also declared that 2003-2012 "...the United Nations Literacy Decade - Education for All... was launched at UN Headquarters on 13 February 2003. It is spearheaded by UNESCO, as the lead agency for the Decade. "Literacy as Freedom" is the theme of the Decade."
Here some Maine literacy statistics:
"According to the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS):
Maine has 400,000 adults (42% of our adult population) functioning at Level 1 and 2.*
Level 1 is defined as adult who can read a little, but not well enough to fill out an application, understand a food label or read a story to a child. According to NALS, about 15% of Maine's adults function at this level.
Level 2 readers can identfy key pieces fo information and perform simple calculations such as those on an order form. According to NALS, about 27% of Maine's adults function at this level. "
More Maine information is available at url:
http://www.mainereads.org/stats.php
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