·    1/3 of all teens who enter high school do not graduate with a diploma 4 years later. 
    (Orfield, 2005)
·     $73 billion per year of unnecessary health care expenses attributed to poor literacy.
    (Healthcare Study Report)
·    70% of prisoners read below eighth grade reading level, and new prisons are being
     built based on below level third grade reading test scores.
    (National Adult Literacy Survey, 1994)  
·    At the current rate of [reading] loss, literacy reading as a leisure activity will virtually
    disappear in half a century.
    (NEA, Reading at Risk) 
·    10 million children have trouble reading and 6 million middle and high school students
    can’t read at [basic reading] levels.          
    (U.S. D.O.E./Alliance for Excellent Education)
·    Illiterate adults account for 75% of the unemployed and 85% of juveniles who appear in court
    (Education Consumers Clearing House)

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