If you’re one in a million in China… …there are 1,300 people just like you

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If you’re one in a million in China…

…there are 1,300 people just like you.

In India there are 1,100 people

just like you.

The 25% of the population in China

with the highest IQ’s…

…is greater than the total population

of North America.

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In fact, last yearmore Chinese students took the English AP exam

than American students.

Richest in the world

Largest military

Center of world business and finance

Strongest education system

World center of innovation and invention

Currency the world standard of value

Highest standard of living

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It is estimated that a weeks worth of New York Times…

…contains more information than a person was likely to come across

in a lifetime in the 18th century.

It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 X 1019)

of unique new informationwill be generated worldwide this year.

That is more than in the

previous 5,000 years.

The amount of new technical information is

doubling every two years.

2x

For students starting a four-year

technical or college degree,

this means that…

…half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated

by their third year of study.

Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation

capability of the human brain.

And while technical predictions further out than about 15 years

are hard to do…

…predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities

of the entire human species.

The U.S. is the only country among free-market countries…

…where the current generation is less well educated than the previous one.

Every year, one in three young adults – more than

1.2 million people –

drops out of high school.

One in four U.S. working families

is low income.

One in every 100 U.S. adults 16 and older…

…is in prison or jail in America.

About 43% do not have a high school diploma or equivalent.

About 2 million immigrants come to the U.S. each year seeking jobs.

About 50% of them

have low literacy levels.

About 8,000 people turn 60 every day.

More than two-thirds of the workforce

is beyond the reach of schools.

So now you know.

What can we do to Reach

Higher, Florida?

Let’s start REACHING…

…because we do

make a difference.

Adult Education and Literacy…Reaching Higher

Special Thanks to Karl Fisch

The FischBowl.blogspot.comJeff Brenmen

ApolloIdeas.com

Adaptation by the National Adult Education Professional

Development ConsortiumKathi Polis, Editor

Lennox McLendon, Executive Director

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