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Adults don’t stay low literate because they didn’t want to learn how to read—their economic status set them up to fail from the time they were young.
Adult literacy and education programs nationwide are an important part of helping the influx of refugees coming to the US by giving them the English language skills that will make the transition here a little easier.
When Desire Barb first enrolled at Seeds of Literacy, in Cleveland, Ohio, she was reading just below an eighth-grade level.
In 2013, at 68 years old, John H. Taylor decided to go back to school. He couldn’t read or write, but he knew it wasn’t too late for him.
Gerno Allen knew he wanted to enlist in the U.S. Army, but he would need to pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a test that measures a young adult’s strength and potential success for military training.
Denise O’Neal will watch her son graduate from high school and head off to college. In a way, it will bring her journey full circle.
With a grant from the Write Her Future Institute, Sheilla was able to use EnGen, a digital English language platform.
