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Mandel's Robert Fischer comments on factors contributing to adult illiteracy

MEDIA | March 14, 2025
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

Are 66% of Cleveland’s adults ‘functionally illiterate’? Some disagree
ideastreamRobert Fischer, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society and director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, said race is a factor that should be examined when looking at adult literacy, just as much as other factors.