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The Family Literacy
Center and the Lapeer District Library
are partners for literacy in Lapeer County.
are partners for literacy in Lapeer County.
Statistics
Additional Statistics on Literacy
U.S. Department of Education:
- A functionally illiterate adult earns 42% less than a high school graduate
Laubach Literacy Action:
- 27% of Army enlistees can't read training manuals written at the 7th grade level
- 40% of single mothers have an 8th grade education or less, and:
- 55% of children in poverty live in female-headed, single-parent households
National Assessment of Education Progress:
(1985 study of 21 - 25 year olds)
- 80% couldn't read a bus schedule
- 73% couldn't understand a newspaper story
- 63% couldn't follow map directions
- 23% couldn't locate gross pay amounts on a paycheck stub
- If parents are functionally illiterate, the child is twice as likely as peers to be as well
Unemployment Stats, U.S. Department of Education, 2001:
- 6.4% High school not completed
- 3.5% High school graduate
- 1.7% Bachelor's or higher
2000 Census, conducted by Bureau of Census for Bureau of Labor Statistics:
- 4.7% less than ninth grade education
- 8.7% ninth to 12th grade
- 86.6% high school education
- 25.6% bachelor degree or higher
U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990:
- Michigan ranks 24th for education expenditures (among all states)
- Michigan ranks 18th for dropout rates--29.9%
Michigan League for Human Services:
- Over 25,000 students drop out of school each year in Michigan
- 10% of all MI students were enrolled in special education (1990 Census)
National Institute for Literacy, Michigan Statistics projected for 2000 Census:
- 7% less than 9th grade education
- 16% 9th-12th grade education
- 32% High school diploma or equivalent
- 23% Some college, but no degree
- 6% Associates Degree
- 10% Bachelors Degree
- 6% Attended graduate school
- 1% speak English not well or not at all
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