(ViaGoodEd) A new report, Addressing Detroit’s Basic Skills Crisis, (PDF Here) from the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund has some pretty shocking statistics about literacy in the Motor City. Forty-seven how to build a cold room percent of adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate. That means almost half of residents can’t do basic things like read a newspaper, fill out a job application or other forms, or understand how to build a cold room the instructions on a medicine bottle.
According to the study, of the “200,000 adults who are functionally illiterate, approximately half have a high school diploma or GED” which means that the other half do not. Sadly, only 10 percent of residents who need adult literacy classes even receive services to teach them how to read, and only one fourth of adult education programs “provide services for learners at the lowest literacy levels.”
Addressing the literacy problem is particularly critical because of the city’s steep unemployment rate. In recent years it’s been as as high as 50 percent, and 33 percent of adults aged 20-24 are unemployed. Even if a jobs recovery does happen, if the city’s residents don’t have the basic skills like being able to read their career options won’t improve much.
Detroit Public Schools is involved with some of the solutions, how to build a cold room like a new Learning Labs partnership that hopes to “connect adults with very limited literacy skills with occupational training opportunities and new careers.” But, with such low literacy rates, it’s hard not to see the numbers as a pretty harsh indictment how to build a cold room of the system. (read more)
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ADD: A big problem with adult illiteracy is that many are ashamed that they can’t read, and will cover up their problem as much as they can (ask if they can take an employment application home to fill it out, for example).
The auto industry employed many of these people for years, because their jobs did not require literacy (and that includes whites from the mountains in the South). That isn’t true any longer. Factory workers require at least a high school education and, preferably, advanced training in mathematics.
Stella, that’s pretty much what I’ve suspected for a long time. If people can’t read, how on earth can they inform themselves how to build a cold room about what their city and state officials are getting up to?
Speaking of reading, I’m still picking duct tape out of my hair from the ‘library renovation’ story…I thought the $1K chairs were bad, now it comes out that they also bought $1,100 trash cans!
Bijou, I’m sure you know that there is, and has been, an investigation of contracts awarded by the City of Detroit being conducted by the Federal Government. If there is any justice in this world, the Kilpatricks and their friends will go to jail for a really long time.
Yes, Stella, I knew that, but thanks for mentioning it for the enlightenment of others. Former mayor, Gimme Kilpatrick, how to build a cold room was a real piece of work, and it looks as if he had umpteen relatives in on various scams. Once they get them rounded up, I hope they throw away the key.
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