Literacy is in the news today, on the eve of International Literacy Day tomorrow, September 8.
In today?s Globe and Mail, Craig Alexander has stirring words on the importance of literacy:
The bottom line is that there are enormous benefits from improved literacy to individuals, businesses, the economy and society. One of the greatest challenges is that literacy is deeply underappreciated. Those with strong communication and numeracy skills take them for granted and can?t imagine a world without them. Many of those with weak literacy skills don?t recognize how they?re being held back and the opportunities they?re going without.
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The Vancouver Sun also posted in honour of International Literacy Day:
As we have noted in this space many times before, literacy ? or more specifically, the lack of literacy ? has a profound impact on virtually every aspect of people?s lives.
Evidence suggests, for example, that, compared to people with high literacy, people with low levels of literacy are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, more likely to earn minimal wages, more likely to require public assistance and more likely to have trouble with the law.
Given this disquieting evidence, it?s more troubling still to learn that a significant portion of the Canadian public experience problems with literacy. Indeed, according to the 2003 Adult Literacy and Life Skills study, 42 per cent of Canadians have low prose literacy skills and 20 per cent have serious problems with reading and comprehension.
Of course, what it means to be literate today involves more than merely being able to read the newspaper.
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