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Projector Setup

Projector Setup. Set workstation colors to 32 bit color. Adjust projector so that the dim grey circle line below is visible on the big screen. Darken room lights if necessary. Click on VIEW - NOTES PAGE For viewing and printing Instructions.

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  1. Projector Setup Set workstation colors to 32 bit color. Adjust projector so that the dim grey circle line below is visible on the big screen. Darken room lights if necessary. Click on VIEW - NOTES PAGE For viewing and printing Instructions.

  2. Seeking Remedy:America’s English Literacy Decline Part One: What the Numbers Tell Us. Produced by American Literacy Council Staff: Free for public use in support of English Literacy In Six Parts. This is Part One.

  3. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One 1992 Arby’s Restaurant Place Mat 1 in 10=10% illiterate 1 in 8 =12% illiterate 1 in 5 = 20% illiterate 1 in 2 = 50%

  4. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One Definition of “Functionally Illiterate” Short: one who is unable to read a Help Wanted ad, get to the place where the job is offered, and fill out the job application form. Long: the inability to write, read, and comprehend texts on familiar subjects, and to understand whatever signs, labels, instructions, and directions are necessary to get along within one’s environment. Hunter and Harmon, Adult Illiteracy in the US., 1979

  5. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One Viewed Globally, the Illiterate Are: • Desperate • Poor • Hungry • Often jobless • Abused • Exploited • Powerless • Ashamed • Self doubting • Migrant “Campaigning for Literacy” Bhola, Unesco, 1984 “Speech makes us human, writing makes us civilized.”

  6. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One • Video Clip: 1’ 10” • “Bluffing It” • Showing: • The personal tragedies • that result from illiteracy. • Literacy can be a life • or death issue.

  7. Thursday, September 9, 1993 The 1993 National Adult Literacy Survey Largest Study of Functional Literacy in the US 26,000 People Interviewed in Depth Formal Government Study: 1993

  8. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One Released Sept. 1993 Adolescents under age 15 were not interviewed. • The Test: can you • write a letter to clear up a billing error? • calculate the length of a bus trip from a bus schedule? The four year study was conducted by ETS, the Educational Testing Service, under contract to the Department of Education. The report was released by Madeline Kunin, Deputy Sec. of Education

  9. Total Population: 185 Million when Test was given In 1996. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One 20m highly literate Cannot: Calculate total of a purchase. Find a street on a map. Understand which price is lowest. 44m lowest 20m adequate 61m moderate skills 50m 2nd lowest Cannot: describe a newspaper article. Write a summarizing paragraph. Distinguish antibiotic from vitamin. Video Clip: 2 Minutes McNeil-Lehrer Report: Sept. 1993

  10. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One States With More Than 1 to 3 million Adults With No High School Diploma 1 to 2 million Less than 1 million More than 3 million 2 to 3 million With no high school diploma, 3/4 earn less than $7,000/year “Adult Illiteracy in the United States”, p 37

  11. Print’s Competition America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One 1900 1930 1996 Electricity Telegraph Phonograph Radio Automobiles Movies Auto Factories Airplanes Radar Antibiotics Television Computers Robots Satellites Workforce Complexity 90% Literacy Literacy Until 1920, printed matter was virtually all that was available. Print had very little competition.

  12. Eighty Years Ago: 90% of the population could write and read complex material. America’s English Literacy Decline- Part One Simply Stated Today: 1/3 to 1/2 of the population cannot fill in job applications or read medicine bottle labels. Technophobia: VCR’s Answering Machines Car radio Digital Clock Microwave Fax Machines Cellular Phones The work place requires the use of computers with complex instruction manuals. Literacy continues to decline despite massive campaigns and massive dollars.

  13. Five Factors are Alleged to Cause the Literacy Dilemma. I. History: “We were Always a Nation of Illiterate Immigrants and Farmers” II. Schools: Experimental New Teaching Methods III. Society: Breakdown of the American Family IV. Government: Lack of Uniform Standards V. English: Our Erratic System of Spelling Are these the causes? Who or what is to blame for non-stop decline? What solutions are offered to increase literacy? How can we deal with non-reading populations? What failed programs could we avoid?

  14. Continue to Part Two: “We Were Once A Literate Nation.”

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