Language and Education

  • Proficiency of foreign languages is vital to America’s national security and diplomacy.
  • Only 1 in 5 American students take a foreign language before college, compared to 92% in Europe.
  • In general, students who speak more than one language score higher on tests.
  • Studies have shown that bilingual students are better at multi-tasking and focusing than monolinguals.
  • Bilingual and trilingual speakers have access to a wider variety of jobs than those who speak only one language.
  • English is one of the most widely spoken languages globally, but a significant portion of the world’s population does not speak English as either a first or second language.

STEM and Workforce:

  • STEM workers earn more than equally educated, non-STEM workers.
  • African Americans and Hispanics remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce compared to their proportions in the overall U.S. workforce.
  • According to the Pew Research Center, Black workers make up 11% of the total U.S. workforce but represent 9% of STEM workers, while Hispanics comprise 17% of the total workforce and 8% of STEM workers.

Literacy and Access

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Children from lower-income homes have limited access to books.

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More than 60 percent of all prison inmates are functionally illiterate.

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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2019 results indicate that 34% of fourth-grade students in the United States were at or below the Basic reading level.

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According to current statistics, roughly 85% of all juveniles in the system are functionally illiterate.

The Scribe’s Institute proudly stands at the forefront of bridging the opportunity gap for children, with a particular emphasis on the vital fields of STEM learning, including medical sciences, engineering, and technology. Our commitment is to ignite a passion for these disciplines at an early age, specifically targeting students in grades 2nd to 4th, ensuring they are not only literate but also proficient in the languages of the future: science and technology.

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