Facts & Figures
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install,
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ever had a child tell you to NOT read them a story?? Here are some eye opening statistics from The Literacy Company at www.readfaster.com:
- The educational careers of 25 to 40 percent of American children are imperiled because they don't read well enough, quickly enough, or easily enough.
- Approximately 50 percent of the nation's unemployed youth age 16-21 are functional illiterate, with virtually no prospects of obtaining good jobs.
- 60 percent of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems
and the saddest one of all......
- 44 million adults in the U.S. can't read well enough to read a simple story to a child.
