Make America Lit(erate) Again

NIO PUBLISHINGLITERACY MATTERSLITERACY STATISTICSSTATE OF LITERACYCOST OF ILLITERACY

Jay Worthington

2/19/20242 min read

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Niotopia > Make America Lit Again

Adult poverty in turn impacts children; 61 percent of low-income families have no children’s books in their homes
68 percent of fourth graders in the United States read at a below proficient level, and of those, 82 percent are from low-income homes
72 percent of children whose parents have low literacy skills will likely be at the lowest reading levels themselves
75 percent of state prison inmates are either classified as low literate or did not complete high school.
The Literacy Project Foundation reported that three out of five people in prison can’t read, and
85 percent of youth offenders struggle to read
improving a parent’s—specifically a mother’s—literacy outweighed any other method of improving literacy
Risk factors include whether the family has access to books and whether children are being read to before they can read themselves.
Household income also played a role, with those at the lowest income levels the most likely to not have read a book.

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children who are read to at least three times a week by a family member are almost twice as likely to score in the top 25% in reading compared to children who are read to less than three times a week.”
children growing up in homes with many books get three years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of their parents’ education, occupation, and class.

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