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Missouri's
Literacy Resource Center
Nearly
half of American adults (90 million) have
limited basic reading and writing skills
according to the National
Adult Literacy
Survey
commissioned by the U.S.
Department of
Education.
In addition, 17% of adults in Missouri
score in the lowest of five levels of
literacy and face life with few options;
950,000 Missourians age 16 and older (28%)
do not have a high school diploma;
children's literacy levels are strongly
linked to the educational level of their
parents, especially their mothers; and
children of parents who drop out of school
are 6 times more likely to drop out than
children of parents who finished school.
LIFT,
Missouri's Literacy Resource
Center,
is working with other organizations to
address the literacy needs of Missouri's
citizens.
What
LIFT is doing to help
As Missouri's Literacy Resource Center,
LIFT provides a wide range of technical
assistance to local programs and serves
500 people per month with up-to-date
literacy information from national,
regional, and state sources. These
resource include:
- teaching
materials
- student
assessment tools
- current
research and statistics
- program
evaluation techniques
- "best
practices" in the literacy
field
- effective
teaching strategies
- early
childhood materials
- model
programs
- innovative
curricula
The
Midwest LINCS
LIFT
is a partner of the Midwest
LINCS, which operates out of
the Ohio Literacy Resource Center at Kent
State University in Kent, Ohio, and
provides a link to national, regional, and
state-specific resource materials for
adult literacy practitioners and students.
Web sites have been developed for each
state literacy resource center in the
twelve Midwest states--Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,
South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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