10 Websites:

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2007/07/why_young_people_are.html
This website is about how the human brain is being filled with pointless thing, and the really important things that we need are not sticking in the brain. A teen would rather remember something that they say in a movie or on TV then remember a fact from class. The author of this article say that when a teen now a day sees something as simple a fly, they will just let it pass them. When he sees a fly he associates it with the may thing that have to do with the word fly, whether it be something that flies, or someone that has the word fly in their name. The video at the end of this article really proves his point.

http://thesouthasianidea.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/is-illiteracy-a-cause-of-poverty/
This website proves that illiteracy does not lead poverty in India and Pakistan. In India there are high literacy rates, where in Pakistan there are not, but Both of these countries have high poverty rates. This website also explains that the countries have “short changed” their citizen a proper education. This is very sad knowing that illiteracy does lead to other global issues, and if a parent is illiterate because of their country than their child will most likely be illiterate too.

http://www.readingstore.com/illiteracy_and_violence_confusi.htm
This website proved my major point about illiteracy leading to many other global problems. This happens because kids are stressed, they might not always know what they are doing at the time, but they could get themselves into real trouble just because of the frustration that builds up inside of them. The author of this website also say that illiterate children are not doomed, they can learn and be on “top” even if their life home is not good, as long as they want it for themselves.

http://www.care2.com/causes/education/blog/fighting-chicagos-53-illiteracy-rate-what-does-it-take/
This website is about a bookstore in Chicago called Open Books, who teach kids how to read and write, and listen to their life stories, by doing this the kids learn how to read and use their voices. This is a recent organizations, in Chicago, but the Open Book Organization has been around for a while helping many kids.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Education-in-Third-World&id=347995
This website tells it reader how there are some good schools in third world countries, and they teach children a lot. It also says that “ a good education is still viewed as the best way to a better life”. This website also states that the poorest people worry about getting money to buy food, clothes, and shelter rather than give their children an education.

http://belrayam.com/2010/03/05/lack-of-education-can-triple-unemployment/
This website says that the amount of kids who did not graduate from high school has gone up in the last 40 months, and that a lot of them have jobs, but about 3% of people with bachelor’s degrees have no job with. The main summary of this website is that illiteracy leads to no jobs.

http://www.drh-movement.org/Articel.asp?NewsID=100
This website has a bunch of facts about illiteracy. It also is about how illiteracy is affecting Africa. On this website a story is told about how an illiterate woman wanted to be educated so she learned, she rode her bike to school every day, then with some other women in the village she taught other kids how to read, which made their whole village literate. What the author is saying is that it is easy to get educated and be educated if you really want to be and get educated.


http://www.efmoody.com/miscellaneous/illiteracy.html
This website is about illiteracy in the U.S and how it affects people in the U.S. This has many shocking facts about illiteracy that most people do not know. This website is very sad because of the facts and you would not really expect so many people in the U.S are not able to read. This website also has a timeline of how illiteracy has grown and decreased up to now.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/education/Adult-Illiteracy-Threatens-Nashville-Economy--92768534.html
This website describes how most of the illiterate people in the world are too ashamed to tell anyone that they are illiterate, or too ashamed to get help. It also says that people may be working with people who are illiterate, without even knowing. Many illiterate people dropped out of high school, so now they do not know how to read. Some people “overcome” their fear of reading. The economy is making more and more people want to learn how to read and write because when they are firing people who are illiterate they will not be able to get a new job because they cannot write a resume or read an application.

http://www.nrrf.org/essay_Illiteracy.html
This website is a debate about whether illiteracy is incurable disease or an education malpractice. It talks about statistics, and if America really does have an illiteracy problem. This website also give two ways to teach reading, and research that is being done. It also has what federal program impact illiteracy. This website takes a looks at illiteracy as a global issue, see what is being done about it now, and sees what is working or not.