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                  Why is Basic Literacy one of PA Forward's priorities?

  • Only 48% of parents read to their preschoolers daily.
  • Eighty-five percent of all juveniles interfacing with the court system are functionally illiterate.
  • The majority of children with functionally illiterate parents become illiterate themselves.
  • A child's library use raises his or her fourth grade assessment scores.
  • Thirteen percent of Pennsylvanians lack basic literacy skills such as the ability to read a newspaper or brochure. This percentage of Pennsylvanians who struggle with basic literacy remains unchanged from 1992.
  • Children have watched 5,000 hours of TV before they get to kindergarten. By the end of sixth grade, children will have watched 100,000 acts of televised violence.
  • If 50 first-graders have trouble reading, 44 of them will have reading problems in the fourth grade.
  • By age three, children from privileged families have heard 30 million more words than children from underprivileged families. The three-year-old measure predicts third grade school achievement.
  • More than 75% of jobs in Pennsylvania demand education beyond high school. And yet, nearly 120,000 Pennsylvania youth ages 16-24 have dropped out of high school.
  • Postsecondary institutions provided remedial coursework for nearly a third of entering freshmen in 2007-2008; public two-year colleges provided such coursework for 42% of their entering students.
  • Fifty percent of the nation's unemployed youth ages 16-21 are functional illiterates with virtually no prospects of obtaining good jobs.
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