Author MELVIA MILLER created unique educational exercises, games and activities that help teach more about the value of history.
She composed this "Family Tree" booklet in honor of her own relatives and ancestors. It is available upon request.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Dec. 16, 2005 -- About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.
Perhaps most sobering was that adult literacy dropped or was flat across every level of education, from people with graduate degrees to those who dropped out of high school.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is considered the best measure of how adults handle everything from completing job applications to computing tips.
So even as more people get a formal education, the literacy rate is not rising. Federal officials say this trend is puzzling and worthy of research.
"Eleven million people is an awful large number of folks who are not literate in English, and therefore are prevented access to what America offers," said Russ Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences at the Education Department.
Some 30 million adults have "below basic" skills in prose. Their ability is so limited that they may not be able to make sense of a simple pamphlet, for example. This total includes 7 million adults considered not to be literate in English but with enough knowledge of the language at least to be tested. The remaining 4 million deemed illiterate did not have enough English skills to be tested.
By comparison, 95 million adults, or 44 percent of the population, have intermediate prose skills, meaning they can do moderately challenging activities. An example would be consulting a reference book to determine which foods contain a certain vitamin.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ~as REPORTED BY CNN
Low achievement is a big problem for all races and groups of students, but there are some problems that are peculiar to minority students.
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