Literacy Month - September 2019

We'll meet on Tuesday September 24th at 10 am to discuss LITERACY for International Literacy Month

Here are some links that we will discuss.  Please feel free to read on your own.

757 million adults are illiterate1

That’s more than the population of Europe, or 1 in every 10 people alive today2

Here are some links that we will discuss:

I was a Teacher for 17 years, but I couldn't read or write - By John Corcoran:  https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43700153

John Corcoran Foundation:  https://www.johncorcoranfoundation.org/

Literacy News

https://www.projectliteracy.com/you-wont-believe-how-many-people-cant-read-sentence 

 https://www.projectliteracy.com/about/why-literacy 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/01/10/reading-lessons  

https://lithub.com/why-we-read-and-write-short-stories/  by Lorrie Moore 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/11/01/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-adult-literacy-crisis/?noredirect=on 

 https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/26/602797769/casting-aside-shame-and-stigma-adults-tackle-struggles-with-literacy?t=1567518583374 

https://www.projectliteracy.com/you-wont-believe-how-many-people-cant-read-sentence 

 https://www.projectliteracy.com/about/why-literacy 

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