Improved Literacy Could Save Health Care
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Posted 11.04.2011
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Huffington Post
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Not surprisingly, gaps in literacy lead to wholesale academic failure -- a pattern that repeats itself over generations. The conditions of poverty that beset families hinder literacy and academic growth; conversely, academic failure spawns more poverty -- and so on.