How to Benefit When We End Our Literacy Crisis



June 25, 2005 -- Recent studies have conclusively proven that 47% of U.S. adults (more than 92 million) cannot read and write well enough to hold an above-poverty-level-wage job and that 45% of U.S. adults never read a book, magazine, or newspaper.

Bob C. Cleckler of Literacy Research Associates, Inc. has studied why illiteracy is much worse than most people realize and other aspects of illiteracy for almost 20 years. After analyzing and correlating the recommendations of dozens of scholars over the last 247 years, he has developed a PROVEN, never-before-tried method of completely and permanently ending most English illiteracy and carefully documented the proof of both the problem and the solution. If enough people learn the facts of the solution and take action, our literacy crisis will end.

Do we really have a literacy crisis in the U.S. and in other English-speaking countries Based upon the most statistically accurate and extensive study ever commissioned by the U.S. government (see http://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93275.pdf and http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999470.pdf), 92 million U.S. adults (47% of them) cannot read and write well enough to hold an above-poverty-level-wage job and 40% or more in the U.S. workforce are functional illiterates. These results will be similar to English literacy in other nations because of the foundational, root cause of English illiteracy.

Despite these shocking results, the reports were not widely publicized. The failure of the present methods of teaching reading is the "dirty little secret" of American education. And unless you have studied the situation, the effects of illiteracy are much worse than you realize.

"How will ALL of us who CAN read benefit by ending our literacy crisis"

You will greatly benefit if you:

-Are concerned that a friend or relative is--or after the presently inadequate schooling will be--functionally illiterate.
-Object to needlessly (since illiteracy can be easily ended) bearing the cost of illiteracy. It costs at least $3700 each year per U.S. adult for government programs that illiterates use; for higher consumer prices because of the cost of recruiting, training, and correcting the mistakes of functional illiterates; and for juvenile delinquency and crime directly related to illiteracy.
-Are a teacher who is frustrated by knowing that about half of your students will never become fluent readers with present teaching methods.
-Have financial interests in an organization (1) being hurt by functionally illiterate workers,.(2) which prepares or sells written material (since functional illiterates are not customers of the organization), or (3) being hurt by competition with more literate foreign workers. The February 2005 U.S. trade balance was $61 billion, the worst ever.
-Feel compassion for 92 million in the U.S. and hundreds of millions elsewhere who are functionally illiterate in English,
-Want to improve communication between language groups and thereby lessen many of the international conflicts.

If enough people read and apply what they learn in the revolutionary new book, Let's End Our Literacy Crisis, we can completely and permanently END our literacy crisis! If this sounds too good to be true, prove it to yourself. Contact Bob C. Cleckler for a free review copy.





How to Benefit When We End Our Literacy Crisis