Right to Read

DateSeptember 3 1986

Can DescriptionsMaster Community Programming Right to Read X4290 Rec. 9/3/86 Air. 9/7/86

AbstractRight to Read; Special; a struggling reader attempts the Declaration of Independence; Pam Cross hosts a studio-based program about the illiteracy rates in the U.S.; images of the signage on the streets of Boston demonstrate the need to read well; interviews with specialists and experts provide the details of illiteracy; functional illiteracy is said to be reading at less than an 8th grade level; the specifics of readership in the Boston area is described; black screen breaks with countdown; the reasons for adult non-readership are described and discussed; interviews with those who suffer from an inability to read are included; organizations and institutions that offer literacy courses are described; A literacy guide is offered;

OtherIn the studio Karen Holmes, Mark Gentile, J. Isaac Laughinghouse, Bayard Peabody, Jim Hughes, Al Giglio, Carolyn Stirling, Bob Hakkila, Joe Soucar, Jerry Milot, Alice Daly, Rodney Grace, Chris O'Hare, Ellen Boyce, Jim Watson, Scott Philbrick, Geoff Sullivan, Juliet Charney, Jim Reidy, Ted Talanian, Marcelle Watkins, Beverly Hemmings, Gale Ewer, Roberta Soolman, Karl Nurse, Donna Latson-Gittens;