Rochelle Cassella This is Me

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1. 1. www.syracuseparent.net

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   Published on: 3/4/2008   Last Visited: 3/26/2008

   According to Rochelle Cassella, director of marketing at ProLiteracy Worldwide, many parents ask for help with reading after they realize they can't help their children learn beyond a certain level. "It's devastating for them. They have their 5 year old telling them they don't know how to read-‘That's not how Mommy reads it,'" said Cassella.
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   There is a strong correlation between crime and illiteracy, says Cassella. "We talk a lot in this country about No Child Left Behind but if we don't do something for these parents, you're not going to solve the problem," said Cassella. "We need to provide parents with basic adult literacy skills. The problem is we're spending money on No Child Left Behind but what we're simply trying to explain is you literally have 30 million adults who can barely read and write." The state and federal standards for education are becoming more stringent, just to receive a diploma, that it has pushed more people out of school and increased the attendance at the local GED sites. Those programs are funded by the federal Workforce Investment Act which has not been reauthorized in six years, which has kept funding at the same for that time, Cassella said.

2. 2. www.aepweb.org

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   Published on: 2/22/2008   Last Visited: 2/22/2008

   Contact: Rochelle Cassella, ProLiteracy Worldwide

3. 3. Potomac News Online | Adults are lost for words

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   Published on: 9/27/2006   Last Visited: 9/27/2006

   Adult low-literacy has long been a silent epidemic in the United States, with its victims often too ashamed to seek help and costs that extend well beyond a diminished quality of life, said Rochelle Casella, a spokeswoman for ProLiteracy Worldwide, an adult education advocacy group that has 1,200 affiliates in the United States including Literacy Volunteers of America Prince William.
   
   Literacy has also gone the way of many social ailments.
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   What's more, Casella said, there tends to be an indifference to the problem because it poses no imminent threat to public health, like AIDS, and is not always apparent to the naked eye, though its repercussions often are.
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   Casella said the organization supports initiatives that would help prevent low-literacy, but added that a system that supports literacy programs for children but not adults is substantially ineffective.
   
   "It doesn't solve the entire problem," she said.
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   To many, Casella said, surviving in one of the most industrialized nations in the world without basic reading or writing skills is unfathomable.