Adult Illiteracy

"Learning to read is similar to learning to drive.You will go to class and learn mechanics and road rules.When a few weeks later, you will learn how to drive, how to park, how to shift, how to park Once you are ready you can pass the road test and you can drive if you pass. The first way of working in phonetics is the same. You learn the mechanism of reading and you can read it if you pass. To do.

Even in our big cities, the illiteracy rate of adults is still a hidden problem. The cruel facts are well known since the International Adult and Life Technology Investigation (IALSS) in 2003. The surprising proportion of Canada's adult population lacks the basic skills necessary to cope with the "knowledge base" economy of the 21st century. Two-fifths of adults are level 1 (poor) or level 2 (weak) at the literacy level, and the number of calculations is larger than this. Outside signs are everywhere, regardless of whether the factory worker is struggling to find a guidebook or seeing a cashier who is about to change.

The adult's illiteracy rate is probably an obstacle to Canada's major educational policy issues, as it focuses on the outcomes of the K-12 public school system. Why do you think adult literacy skills are considered afterwards? Since TD Bank has re-listed it on the public agenda, who raises and solves this problem in Canada? What are the political and structural barriers to coping with "hidden shame" in Canada?

Supporters of literacy improvement in Nova Scotia Province can quickly pinpoint the reasons for the problem continuing even in cities like Halifax, where five universities are recognized. The illiteracy rate is 34%. The struggle against illiteracy against adults in Nova Scotia was largely left to the regional learning center of 30 funds shortage in the literacy Nova Scotia network. NS NDP In the past two years, the government has increased funds for short-term workplace training from $ 300,000 to $ 1 million, but the local volunteer-led literacy network agencies work hard to maintain I am in