Education
LearnPoint's Grand Strategy for Education
LearnPoint aims is to leverage our success to advocate a Grand Strategy for education:
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Public education for preschool, ages 3 and 4.
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12 to 1 Student/Teacher Ratio Kindergarten - Grade 5
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Raise Teacher Quality & Compensation
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Build State of the Art School Facilities for All
LearnPoint believes that with this Grand Strategy for Education within 1 to 2 generations we will experience a renaissance of community, social & emotional health, and economy.
Building An Education Empire
Shows to Game Apps to Social Learning Network to Metaverse & AI Avatar Teacher
Kid’s Shows
Engaging educational programs that captivate young audiences while teaching essential literacy & reading skills and life lessons.
Game Apps
Interactive gamified learning that explore literacy and reading concepts and skills through engaging fun play, ensuring skill mastery.
Social Learning Network
Community-driven network that connects learners, families, and educators to share lifelong learning experiences, and growth.
Metaverse Site &
Ai-Powered Teacher
Virtual reality meta-verse sites with AI avatar teachers that deliver personalized adaptive learning paths for each child.
Building An Education Empire
Shows to Game Apps to Social Learning Network to Metaverse & AI Avatar Teacher
Kid’s Shows
Engaging educational programs that captivate young audiences while teaching essential literacy & reading skills and life lessons.
Game Apps
Interactive gamified learning that explore literacy and reading concepts and skills through engaging fun play, ensuring skill mastery.
Social Learning Network
Community-driven network that connects learners, families, and educators to share lifelong learning experiences, and growth.
Metaverse Site & Ai-Powered Teacher
Virtual reality meta-verse sites with AI avatar teachers that deliver personalized adaptive learning paths for each child.
Global Literary Crisis
Only one-third of children worldwide possess highly proficient literacy skills by Grade 4, leaving the majority at risk of enduring lifelong educational and socio-economic disadvantages.
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Early Childhood Literacy Challenges
Less than one-third of kindergarteners begin school adequately prepared to learn reading. Two-thirds lack exposure to crucial pre-literacy activities, such as being read to at home or learning the alphabet letter names and sounds.*
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Elementary and Middle School Reading Proficiency
Only about one-third of fourth and eighth-grade students attain advanced reading proficiency. This limitation for the other two-thirds hinders their ability to comprehend and engage with the more complex texts essential for academic success in higher grades.**
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High School Graduates' Reading Readiness
Fewer than one-third of high school graduates achieve college-level reading readiness. This deficiency for the remaining two-thirds restricts their access to higher education opportunities and limits their prospects for skilled employment.***
Without effective early learning and intervention, two-thirds of children never catch up, leading to long-term educational and socio-economic disadvantages, significantly impacting future learning, career/workforce readiness, and life opportunities.
* UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (2022): unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380263
** International Literacy Monitoring Report (2022)
*** National Center for Education Statistics (2022)
Problem: Literacy Gap
Percentage of Grade 8 Students Reading Below Proficiency in Each State
Problem: Literacy Gap
Percentage of Grade 8 Students Reading Below Proficiency in Each State
Literacy Data and its impact on the Economy
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3 out of 4 people on welfare can’t read
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20% of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage
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50% of the unemployed between the ages of 16 and 21 cannot read well enough to be considered functionally literate
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Between 46% and 51% of American adults have an income well below the poverty level because of their inability to read
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Illiteracy costs American taxpayers an estimated $20 billion each year
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School dropouts cost our nation $240 billion in social service expenditures and lost tax revenues
Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation
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Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that over 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
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21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
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54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level
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45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level
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44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year
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The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Hampshire, in that order
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The Bottom 3 states for child literacy rates were Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, (highest to lowest)
Literacy Data and its impact on Society
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3 out of 5 people in American prisons can’t read
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To determine prison beds needed in future years, some states actually base their projection on how well current elementary students are performing on reading tests
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85% of juvenile offenders have problems reading
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50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels
Literacy Data and its impact in the Classroom
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Approximately 40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level
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Almost 70% of low-income fourth grade students cannot read at a basic level
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49% of 4th graders eligible for free and reduced-price meals finished below “Basic” on the NAEP reading test
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Teacher disposition changes drastically during reading instruction with poor readers
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Student disposition changes when they are made to feel inadequate
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Students struggle in other academic areas
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60% of the behavioral problems occur during reading assignments- group or independently
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Struggling readers suffer socially
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Struggling readers suffer emotionally
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The student's family feels the emotions and social effects
