Just last year. in my own State. a report by the Wisconsin Literacy 2000 Task Force identified 492.720 Wisconsin residents operating at or below the level of functional illiteracy. An additional 412.720 residents were identified as "atrisk" because they just dont have the basic skills required by an "informationage" society. Even worse. the task force estimated that those numbers in Wisconsin will increase by at least 10.000 per year because of the increasing school dropout rate and the number of functionally illiterate immigrants. Those numbers demonstrate that we have our work cut out for us. But we know how to do that work.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are stereotyped as functionally illiterate.