Education Statistics

It is estimated that more than $2 billion is spent each year on students who repeat a grade because they have reading problems. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Five to six year olds have a vocabulary of 2,500-5,000 words. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information Beck & Mckeown, 1991

The average student learns about 3,000 words per year in the early school years (8 words per day). Reference Education Statistic Reference Information Baumann & Kameenui, 1991 / Beck & McKeown, 1991 / Graves, 1986

14% of all individuals have a learning disability. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information Learning Disabilities Association

33% of children in California will not finish high school. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information California Department of Education

The educational careers of 25 to 40 percent of American children are imperiled because they don't read well enough, quickly enough, or easily enough. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information Committee on Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children of the National Research Council, 1998

Disadvantaged students in the first grade have a vocabulary that is approximately half that of an advantaged student (2,900 and 5,800 respectively). Reference Education Statistic Reference Information Graves, 1986 / White, Graves & Slater, 1990

54 percent of all teachers have limited English proficient (LEP) students in their classrooms, yet only one-fifth of teachers feel very prepared to serve them. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information Richard Riley - Former Secretary of Education

Since 1983, more than 10 million Americans reached the 12th grade without having learned to read at a basic level. In the same period, more than 6 million Americans dropped out of high school altogether. Reference Education Statistic Reference Information A Nation Still at Risk, U.S. Department of Education, 1999

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Literacy Statistics

Over one million children drop out of school each year, costing the nation over $240 billion in lost earnings, forgone tax revenues, and expenditures for social services. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information McQuillan, 1998

Over 50% of NASA employees are dyslexic. They are deliberately sought after because they have superb problem solving skills and excellent 3D and spatial awareness. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information Mary-Margaret Scholtens, director of the Alternative Programs Providing Learning Experiences Group, Copyright ? 2005, Jonesboro Sun

More than three out of four of those on welfare, 85% of unwed mothers and 68% of those arrested are illiterate. About three in five of America's prison inmates are illiterate. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information Washington Literacy Council

Approximately 50 percent of the nation's unemployed youth age 16-21 are functional illiterate, with virtually no prospects of obtaining good jobs. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

More than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level - far below the level needed to earn a living wage. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information National Institute for Literacy, Fast Facts on Literacy, 2001

It is estimated that the cost of illiteracy to business and the taxpayer is $20 billion per year. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information United Way, "Illiteracy: A National Crisis"

44 million adults in the U.S. can't read well enough to read a simple story to a child. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information National Adult Literacy Survey (1992) NCED, U.S. Department of Education

60 percent of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information U.S. Department of Education

Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3 - 4 times more likely to drop out in later years. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information National Adult Literacy Survey, (1002) NCES, U.S. Department of Education

21 million Americans can't read at all, 45 million are marginally illiterate and one-fifth of high school graduates can't read their diplomas. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information Department of Justice, 1993

To participate fully in society and the workplace in 2020, citizens will need powerful literacy abilities that until now have been achieved by only a small percentage of the population. Reference Literacy Statistic Reference Information National Council on Teachers of English Standards for the English Language Arts

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Reading Statistics

In 1999, only 53 percent of children aged 3 to 5 were read to daily by a family member. Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read aloud to everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above the poverty line. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information The National Center for Education Statistics, NCES Fast Facts, Family Reading

The average reader spends about 1/6th of the time they spend reading actually rereading words. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information No reference information is available for this statistic.

56 percent of young people say they read more than 10 books a year, with middle school students reading the most. Some 70 percent of middle school students read more than 10 books a year, compared with only 49 percent of high school students. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information National Education Association press statement, March 2, 2001

15% of all 4th graders read no faster than 74 words per minute, a pace at which it would be difficult to keep track of ideas as they are developing within the sentence and across the page. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information Pinnell, et. al. 1995

15 percent of the population has specific reading disorders. Of these 15 percent as many as 1/3 may show change in the brain structure. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information Albert M. Galaburda, M.D., Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

It is estimated that as many as 15 percent of American students may be dyslexic. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Good readers in 5th grade may read 10 times as many words as poor readers over a school year. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information Nagy and Anderson, 1984

In a class of 20 students, few if any teachers can find even 5 minutes of time in a day to devote to reading with each student. Reference Reading Statistic Reference Information Adams, 2002

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