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Posted: September 2, 2010

In promoting my proven solution to functional illiteracy, I feel like a medical doctor who has a patient with a serious medical problem who has been treating [...]

September 2nd, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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Posted: August 28, 2010
Updated: August 31, 2010

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August 28th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments

Posted: February 11, 2010

Summary: A recent, careful study of the most thorough and statistically accurate report on U.S. adult literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government and a careful analysis of the effects of illiteracy proves that the extent and seriousness of English illiteracy is much worse than previously believed. The good news [...]

February 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Education, Uncategorized, adult illiteracy, alphabetic languages, causes of illiteracy, costs of illiteracy, crime related to illiteracy, effects of illiterates in the workplace, extent of illiteracy, frozen spelling of words, functional illiteracy, hidden illiteracy, inconsistent spelling, juvenile delinquency related to illiteracy, logograms, poverty, problems of illiteracy, spelling rules, teaching reading fluency, teaching reading to students, teaching students reading, time required to learn to read, truancy related to illiteracy, united states illiteracy, world illiteracy | 74 comments