<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5dac5879-cda7-4d68-8b2d-0cc4ad15d995/8354E9DA-5EB0-47A2-81D4-96C76DB31B4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1682207" href="http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1682207" style="font-size: 11px;">www.brantfordexpositor.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1682207">Every now and then it is good to be jolted out of our complacent assumptions about what we believe conditions to be in 21st century Canada. That kind of unsettling wakeup was my experience early this summer when I read an online report of the Canadian Learning Council entitled, Reading the Future: Planning to meet Canada's future literacy needs. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1682207"><P>The study debunks the belief that Canada has no serious literacy problem. The disturbing fact, as the council reports, is that almost half of all Canadian adults, 48%, have low literacy skills (42% if seniors over 65 are excluded). Initially this seems hard to believe, but before we reject the findings as hyperbole, we need to recognize the distinction between low literacy skills and illiteracy. Few Canadians are illiterate. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8354E9DA-5EB0-47A2-81D4-96C76DB31B4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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