Tyler Rebhahn's List: Literacy

• 2002 showed a full 21 percent of teens were functionally illiterate.

• 25 percent of eighth graders and 26 percent of 12th graders were reading at the "below basic" level

  • amount of teens who can't read
• 70 percent of U.S. high school seniors graduate.

• Teenagers with reading problems are more likely than classmates without reading problems to have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), experience anxiety and depression, and use drugs as they get older

  • a reason why

• • 3,852,097 = total population of min.
    .06*3,852,097= 231125 people who can't read
• Percent lacking basic
  prose literacy skills

  • 6% of minnesotans couldn't pass a basic litteracy test
• useholds in 200

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• 14 Percent of U.S. Adults Can't Read
• 1 in 7 can't read
• 32 million U.S. adults

  • don't have basic liteerary skills

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