Anyone Can Read Now | The extent and seriousness of English functional illiteracy exceeds your worst NIGHTMARE, |
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After reading the report of the most extensive study of U.S. adult literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, titled Adult Literacy in America, Cleckler was shocked at how widespread the problem of functional illiteracy is in America. He became more passionately devoted to his humanitarian project of ending English functional illiteracy. He formed a non-profit educational corporation, Literacy Research Associates, Inc. in 2001. He did additional research and wrote a much-improved book titled Let’s End Our Literacy Crisis. This book was published and totally financed by American University & Colleges Press, an imprint of American Book Publishing, in early 2005. Let’s End Our Literacy Crisis won Finalist Awards in two book competitions for books published in 2005. It was one of six finalists out of 49 entrants in the Education/Academics category of the USABookNews.com Best Books Award competition with 1000 to 2,000 total entrants and was one of eight finalists in the education category of the Foreword magazine Book-of-the-Year Award competition with 1540 total entrants. Dr. Michael Shaughnessy, Professor of Special Education at Eastern New Mexico University, requested and received an internet interview with Cleckler about Let’s End Our Literacy, which he published on the EducationNews.org website. When asked where he had read the book, he replied by email, “I have read the book from the local public library, and I agree with you 100%.” Gary Sprunk purchased and read Let’s End Our Literacy Crisis in 2005 from Amazon.com. Sprunk has a Bachelors Degree in Engineering, a Masters Degree in English Linguistics, and a genius mentality. After talking with Cleckler about the solution to English functional illiteracy, he decided – without Cleckler’s request or even his suggestion – to form an educational corporation to promote Cleckler’s solution to ending English functional illiteracy. His corporation, NuEnglish, Inc. is a non-profit educational corporation and a 501(c)3 public charity, incorporated in Arizona in April 2007.
Gary Sprunk hired a professional web designer to prepare our website home page, http://nuenglish.org and http://nuenglish.net for additional information about problems of English literacy, and http://nuenglish.com for more information about our books and our humanitarian project. Sprunk developed a computer program which will quickly convert up to about 25 pages of traditional English material into NuEnglish, our proposed spelling system. This program, titled “Respeller,” is free for all to use on our home page, nuenglish.org. Respeller now has a database of 578,000 English words and more English words are being added. Sprunk also wrote a book, Beginner’s NuEnglish Workbook, published in 2008 based upon his experience of teaching English to young children in South Korea and university students in Thailand. For comments, go to the bottom of the home page. |