Excellence in Education

This blog has been created to educate the general public about a program that I have created to promote literacy in the state of Georgia. It is my desire to encourage volunteers at the local community level to become literacy volunteers.

The National Center for Family Literacy reports the following statistics:

Parental literacy is one of the single most important indicators of a child's success. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) has concluded that youngsters whose parents are functionally illiterate are twice as likely to be functionally illiterate themselves.
By age four, children who live in poor families will have heard 32 million fewer words than children living in professional families.
One in five, or 20%, of America's children five years old and under live in poverty.
Some 30 million adults in the United States have extremely limited literacy skills. If one teacher could teach 100 adults to read, we would need 300,000 adult education teachers to meet this need.
The Hispanic population is the largest minority in the United States and has the highest school dropout rate. More than two in five Hispanics living in America age 25 and older have not graduated from high school.
NCFL firmly believes that literacy and education are the cornerstones of the nation's well-being. Please join us in our efforts to eradicate the intergenerational cycle of low literacy

Join the fight in pursuing Excellence in Education by becoming a family literacy coach. Family Literacy equals Family Success. If we want our children to become educated we must involve the entire family in the process of becoming literate.

It is my firm belief that "To Teach is To Touch a Life Forever!" We can make a difference one family at a time.