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Article: Too many Mississippians lack basic literacy skills.(As I See It)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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When faced with the fact that 30% of Mississippi's adult population is functionally illiterate, we can wring our hands in dismay and move on to another topic or we can do something about it. Doing something about it is the mission of the Continuing Education Learning Center in Jackson and they point to a string of successes to support that claim.
First, the situation.
The Barksdale Reading Institute in Oxford says that, of the 2.8 million people residing in Mississippi, 700,000 are functionally illiterate. Thus, nearly three-quarters of a million people living in Mississippi cannot follow the simplest written instruction and perform the indicated task.