With many problems facing the American society today, people tend to get sidetrack when looking just at the surface of all these "problems", when they should be focusing on the internal problems within our great American nation. One of these problems is the concept of an illiterate society, and the effect it has on these illiterate people, and the people around them.
Illiteracy: The condition or quality of being ignorant or unknowledgeable in a particular subject or field, basically in shorter a shorter term, not being able to read or write. This is one of the major problems facing American, and it is definitely not stopping now. Illiteracy in American had continued to grow. In September of 1993, the most comprehensive representation ever available on the condition of illiteracy in this nation was released by the U.S. Department of Education. The National Adult Literacy Survey, also known as the ALS, evaluated the skills of adults in three areas. Those three areas were prose, document and quantitative proficiency. There were five levels of literacy that were assigned to people, 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. 23 percent of the people tested, 40 to 44 million adults were at Level 1, the lowest of five levels. This group is the Adult Literacy Service's primary target population, these people we refer to as functionally illiterate. 25 percent to 28 percent, approximately 50 million adults, were .
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at the second lowest level. According to Executive Summary, "While their skills were more varied than those of individuals in Level 1, their repertoire was still quite limited." These statistics make it extremely clear; illiteracy is on an increasing span on our American nation. The Office of Technology Assessment, also known as the OAT, an analytical arm of the U.S. Congress, stated in a 1993 report: "Standards and requirements for literacy have increased over time and a large number of adults need to improve their literacy skills.
