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September is Iowa Literacy Month

September 6, 2000 By admin

This first day of September marks the beginning of Iowa Literacy Month as state educators try to reach the roughly four-out-of-ten adults who have trouble reading. One official says if future generations of Iowans are to succeed in the 21st century, literacy must become a higher priority.Sally Schroeder is an adult education consultant for the Iowa Department of Education. She says Iowa adults, on average, outperform other adults nationwide on tasks that measure literacy — but the literacy problem is still serious in the Hawkeye State. Schroeder says more than 40-percent of the U-S workforce lacks basic literacy skills, resulting in the loss of 60-billion dollars in productivity every year. She says the ability to read can improve a person’s job path, wages and relationships with co-workers, friends and family members.The Iowa Literacy Resource Center is on-line at “www.readiowa.org”.

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