Tag: Project Literacy

Digital City Brings Attention to the Devastating Impact of Illiteracy in the United States

Stuart Mitchell

A powerful visualization of the extent of illiteracy in the United States has been unveiled today in the form of ‘IlliteraCity’. Supported by Actor and Activist, Idris Elba, in conjunction with Project Literacy a global campaign founded by digital education company Pearson, the city has been launched to bring to light the many real world problems that people who cannot read and write face. ‘IlliteraCity’ was constructed from real-world demographics and statistics around literacy, and was created to provide a startling representation of the ramifications illiteracy can have on a city…

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Idris Elba helps tackle adult illiteracy with new Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

A new awareness effort from Actor and Activist Idris Elba and Project Literacy, a global campaign founded by learning company Pearson and made up of over 100 organisations dedicated to ending illiteracy by 2030, is aiming to change the fact half of Brits are unaware of scale of illiteracy on their doorstep. We are underestimating the scale of illiteracy in the UK by almost 50%, new research released on International Literacy Day has found. When asked, respondents estimated the figure to be 2.7 million when in fact over 5 million…

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