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Illiteracy in the Workplace |
| Section: LIFE / EDUCATION |
| Author: David Sims |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,799 Words, 22,452 Characters |
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One Saturday last August, "Walter Beauchamp" set out on an uncharted, forty-mile journey. A doctor's appointment the following Monday had him spooked, and making this trail run would guarantee a timely arrival two days hence. Normally, the 53-year-old mechanic doesn't stray farm from his southern New Hampshire home, and when he must, as in this case, his hands shake, his stomach feels like one large knot, and he breaks into a cold sweat. Walter is functionally illiterate, and driving in foreign territory is a harrowing adventure of looming road signs and unintelligible street names.
While other kids were cracking the books, learning their ABC's and the three Rs, Walter Beauchamp--as he shall here be known--was squatting in the fields of Aroostook Country, Maine harvesting potatoes un...
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...a solid foundation in the basics to survive in the workplace. And workplaces in turn are having to "reskill" the swollen ranks of ill-equipped workers who simply cannot make do in an age of high technology and global competition. Workers like Norma Glover, Laura Mitchell, and Dotilda Reid can now face a future bright with promise; the handwriting is one the wall, and fortunately, it's theirs.
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