Let's End Our Literacy Crisis

America is in crisis—a literacy crisis. Our students are placing
“dead last among the industrial world” in scholastic tests,
as George Bush senior declared. The Salt Lake Tribune
showed that when our children finish their schooling, nearly
half of them “…read and write so poorly that it is difficult for
them to hold a decent job.” The United States spends almost
$4000 each year per taxpayer for increased costs of consumer
goods and increased taxes because of illiteracy and the
resulting crime and o...