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The changing face of adult literacy
Over the past 25 years, the organization has seen its mission evolve dramatically. It was founded in 1983 to improve the lives of the estimated 15 percent of Charlottesville-area residents who could not read or write in English. Most, if not all, of these residents were American-born.
No longer. While the region’s illiteracy rate still hovers around 15 percent, the population of the illiterate residents has shifted. Now, the vast majority of residents who need English tutoring were born in another country.
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