Literacy
demands for our society are not being met throughout the nation today; it has become a
staggering problem throughout the nation.
Literacy lays the foundation for our education as well as the nature of
democracy. There are many children
in Buffalo as well as throughout the entire U.S. that can’t read or write at
their own grade level, there is an increasing number of teens dropping out of
school, and many adults also haven’t acquired the necessary skills to thrive in the
increasingly competitive job market with a higher demand.
For
these reasons, among others, Read to Succeed Buffalo, the joint venture of over
50 organizations with the purpose to improve literacy in Buffalo, will be
holding their Right to Literacy Convention in Buffalo, which will be sponsored
by Literacy Powerline–one of the nation’s leading advocates for community
literacy programs. Many educators
as well as community leaders and involved citizens are expected to assemble at
the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Saturday, June 13th from 8AM to 2PM to further
declare this right to literacy and justice for all.
According
to a Read to Succeed Buffalo spokesman, our literacy levels do not meet the
national and global demands for higher levels of comprehension, computation,
and critical thinking, which demands change. As a result, participants will sign a “Declaration
of Literacy and Justice for All” to further commit our community to the issue after learning deeper issues of the injustice of
illiteracy and discussing and voting on resolutions to inform the community of system
change.
Read
to Succeed hopes to reach out to anyone and everyone for this event and
encourages all to attend, the event is also free, to register call
843.8895. Read to Succeed branches
out to all ages to further the cause of both literacy and raising public awareness
of how it is in fact an issue. More information of the collaboration of the many organizations can be found on the Read to Succeed Buffalo site.