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Literacy
The ability to read and write information proficient enough to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential. There are three types of literacy.
Prose literacy
The ability to read and comprehend documents with continuous text, such as newspaper articles and instructions.
DOCUMENT LITERACY
The ability to read and understand documents with non-continuous text, such as job applications, maps, and transportation schedules.
Quantitative literacy
The ability to perform computations, such as reviewing a bill or balancing a checkbook. These three types of literacy cover the types of reading that people need to do to be functional daily.
Impact
Absent from one (1) of every five (5) adults in the United States are the literacy skills to be classified as literate in the English language. These individuals cannot complete tasks that require comparing information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences.
In these instances, the statistics show that these individuals may be considered functionally illiterate in English: i.e., unable to successfully determine the meaning of sentences, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information, or complete simple forms. This translates to 43 million adults with low level skills.
This according to the U. S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, July 2019.
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Chairman/CEO
Executive Director
Regional Director
Mr. Tyrone L. Clark
[Since 2008]
Regional Director
Executive Director
Regional Director
Mrs. Mari Anne Clark
[Since 2012]
Executive Director
Executive Director
Executive Director
Mrs. Marissa Thomas
[Since 2019]
Secretary
Secretary
Executive Director
Mrs. Lisa Pearson
[Since 2015]
Secretary
Mr. Jason King
[Since 2020]
Secretary
Dr. Lori James, PhD
[Since 2020]
Mr. Matthew Filippi
[Since 2020]
Mr. Lucas Danowski
[Since 2020]
Mrs. Priscilla Hammond
[Since 2023]
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