{"id":8182,"date":"2015-05-06T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backtobasicslearning.com\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:32:13","slug":"11-facts-about-literacy-that-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/11-facts-about-literacy-that-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"11 facts about literacy that you need to know!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Do-Something-interns-logo.medium\"<\/a>From the DoSomething Organization, here are 11 Facts About Literacy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Two-thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare. Over 70 percent of America\u2019s inmates cannot read above a 4th grade level.<\/li>\n
  2. 1 in 4 children in America grow up without learning how to read.<\/li>\n
  3. As of 2011, America was the only free-market OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) country where the current generation was less well educated than the previous<\/li>\n
  4. Literacy is a learned skill. Illiteracy is passed down from parents who can neither read nor write.<\/li>\n
  5. Nearly 85 percent of the juveniles who face trial in the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate, proving that there is a close relationship between illiteracy and crime. More than 60 percent of all inmates are functionally illiterate.<\/li>\n
  6. 53 percent of 4th graders admitted to reading recreationally \u201calmost every day,\u201d while only 20 percent of 8th graders could say the same. (2009 study)<\/li>\n
  7. 75 percent of Americans who receive food stamps perform at the lowest 2 levels of literacy, and 90 percent of high school dropouts are on welfare.<\/li>\n
  8. Teenage girls ages 16 to 19 who live at or below the poverty level and have below average literacy skills are 6 times more likely to have children out of wedlock than the girls their age who can read proficiently.<\/li>\n
  9. Reports show that low literacy directly costs the healthcare industry over $70 million every year.<\/li>\n
  10. In 2013, Washington, D.C. was ranked the most literate American city for the third year in a row, with Seattle and Minneapolis close behind.<\/li>\n
  11. Long Beach, CA was ranked the country\u2019s most illiterate city, followed by Mesa, AZ, and Aurora, CO.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    From the DoSomething Organization, here are 11 Facts About Literacy: Two-thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare. Over 70 percent of America\u2019s inmates cannot read above a 4th grade level. 1 in 4 children in America grow up without learning how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,41,349],"tags":[626,1106,1037,1132,1136,842,719,718,819,844,438,465],"class_list":["post-8182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-students","category-for-teachers","category-backtobasicsprivateschool","tag-back-to-basics-learning-dynamics-wilmington-delaware","tag-interpreters-job-hiring-delaware","tag-jobs-in-delaware","tag-k-12-private-school-and-tagged-back-to-basics-k-12-private-school-wilmington-delaware","tag-literacy-facts-2015","tag-delaware-state-contract-translating-and-interpreting-back-to-basics-learning-dynamics","tag-newark-delaware-1-on-1-tutoring","tag-newark-delaware-11-tutoring","tag-test-prep-sat-act-delaware-southeastern-pennsylvania","tag-translating-and-interpreting-services-in-delaware","tag-tutoring-wilmington-delaware","tag-wilmington-delaware-k-12-private-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}