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Bob Cleckler is a retired Chemical Engineer who worked for Hercules, Inc. for 29 years. Since 1985 he has been passionately concerned about the serious problems that illiterates must constantly endure -- problems that most of us would consider a crisis if they occurred to us. His passion increased considerably when he found that about 600 million of the more than 1.3 billion English-speaking people worldwide are functionally illiterate in English (over 93 million are in the U.S. alone) and found proof that 31 percent of U.S. adults are in poverty and are at least twice as likely to be in poverty because of their illiteracy as for all other reasons combined. After more than a year of research (including a careful analysis of solutions that teachers' colleges never consider) Cleckler found that there is a simple, logical, easily-implemented, PROVEN-EFFECTIVE solution to the problem of English illiteracy -- a solution that many scholars have recommended for over 250 years and a solution for which all reasonable objections have been thoroughly debunked by several distinguished scholars. This simple solution, which is factually proven in Cleckler's four published books on the subject, has never been tried in English.

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Do You REALLY Want to Help End Poverty in the U.S. and English-speaking Nations?
People bemoan the poverty they see, but seldom know the cause of the poverty. Not knowing the cause makes it difficult to take action in such a way as to help people permanently escape from their poverty. The most statistically accurate and thorough study of ever performed of U.S. adult illiteracy proves that poverty is over twice as likely to be a result of illiteracy as for all other causes combined. The good news is that the solution to English illiteracy is easier than we would ever dream. Read
By: Bob C. Cleckler | 10/11/2009 | K-12 Education

Widespread Illiteracy: Ending Our Literacy Crisis
The serious problems of functional illiteracy and the widespread extent of illiteracy is almost certainly much worse than you realize. About 600 million of the 1.3 billion or more English-speaking people worldwide are functionally illiterate in English -- over 93 million in the U.S. alone are functionally illiterate. Absolutely nothing done in the last 80 years has improved the U.S. literacy rate, but now there is a simple, logical, easily-implemented, PROVEN solution to English illiteracy. Read
By: Bob C. Cleckler | 16/09/2009 | K-12 Education