Dedicated to positively impacting the lives of adults through improved literacy.
Literacy is defined as the ability to read, write, speak, compute, and solve problems at the level needed to function on the job, in the family, and in the community. Thirty million adults in the U.S. have a very limited ability to read and write or are not literate in English.
Literacy is a key indicator of quality of life. Poor readers are more likely to be unemployed, to live in poverty, and to have health problems and no medical insurance.
We are here to help!
Literacy Rates in Muskegon County
- It is estimated that 21% of adults age 16 and older in Muskegon County cannot read well enough to fill out an application, read a food label or read a simple story to a child (Portland State University 1996).
- A national assessment of adult literacy done in 2003 estimated that 8 percent or more of Muskegon County’s population lack basic prose literacy skills equating to nearly 14,000 adults in Muskegon County alone (based on July 2008 population estimate of 174,344, Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division).
- To get more recent national literacy statistics please visit the National Center for Educational Statistics at www.nces.ed.gov/naal/
Please browse our webpages to find out what we do and how you can help!
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2nd Annual Scrabble® FUNdraiser – October 23, 2010
Check our Events page for more information!
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Thank you to Topshelf Pizza & Pub
for providing pizzas for our Tutor trainings in 2010!
Read Muskegon
PO Box 1312
Muskegon, MI 49443-1312
Phone: (231) 766-5040
E-mail: litcoordinator@readmuskegon.org
