'Let's End Our Literacy Crisis', the title of a revolutionary book, tells it all and we can end the illiteracy crisis! This book convincingly answers questions, based upon the most statistically accurate and extensive study ever commissioned by the U.S. government. 92 million U.S. adults, 47% of them, cannot read and write well enough to hold an above-poverty-level-wage job. A later study proved that 40% or more of the employees in most U.S. businesses are functional illiterates. Statistics from other countries are almost certain to be similar.

Let's End Our Literacy Crisis also explains:
(1) Seven reasons why most of us do not realize how extensive functional illiteracy is.
(2) How serious the financial, emotional and physical problems that illiterates must constantly endure.
(3) How illiteracy is costing each U.S. adult who can read at least $3700 each year for government programs that illiterates use, for higher consumer prices because of the cost of recruiting and training functional illiterates, and for their mistakes and inabilities in the workplace, for juvenile delinquency and crime directly related to illiteracy. English illiteracy in other countries undoubtedly incurs similar costs.
(4) Most importantly, it details a proven method of completely and permanently ending most English illiteracy, not only for 92 million or more Americans but also for hundreds of millions of English-speaking people around the world who cannot read English.

As you may know, English is used by more people as a native or as a second language than any other language in the world. This method of ending English illiteracy has been recommended by dozens of scholars of English and of other languages for 247 years and has been proven effective in more than 300 languages, but it has never been tried in English! In 295 of the 300 languages, 95% of them, the students became fluent readers in less than three months. It requires most of the 53% of U.S. students who become functionally literate from two to four years of the present reading instruction.

How will all of us who can read benefit by ending our literacy crisis?
You will greatly benefit if you are concerned that a friend or relative is or, after the presently inadequate schooling, may become functionally illiterate and want to spare them the suffering and problems illiteracy brings.
You object to needlessly paying a comparatively large portion of your income for illiteracy, at least $3700 each year per U.S. adult.
You are a teacher who is frustrated by knowing that about half of your students will never become fluent readers with present teaching methods.
You have financial interest in an organization being hurt by functionally illiterate workers.
You have financial interest in an organization which prepares or sells written material , since functional illiterates are not customers of the organization.
You have financial interest in an organization being hurt by competition with more literate foreign workers.
You feel compassion for 92 million in the U.S. and 100s of millions elsewhere who are functionally illiterate in English.
You want to improve communication between language groups and thereby lessen many of the international conflicts.