{"id":8085,"date":"2014-11-14T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:03:15","slug":"the-great-learning-gap-and-why-we-must-do-something-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/14\/the-great-learning-gap-and-why-we-must-do-something-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Learning Gap and Why We Must Do Something About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Joi<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/Blog-Image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8087 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/Blog-Image3-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/Blog-Image3-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/Blog-Image3-1024x455.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/10\/Blog-Image3-500x222.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>n us on Monday 11\/24 for a<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/academics\/wml\/schemel\/luncheons.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nwith <a href=\"http:\/\/philaliteracy.org\/profiles\/dr-judith-renyi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Renyi<\/a>, Ph.D.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Executive Director, The Mayor&#8217;s Commission on Literacy, Philadelphia<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">The Great Learning Gap &amp;\u00a0Why We Must Do Something About It<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In October 2013 an international study of literacy revealed that the US had fallen below average among 23 first world countries. It found that 36 million US adults are functioning too low in reading, writing and mathematics and the ability to solve problems in a technology-rich environment to get or keep jobs. Dr. Renyi will discuss the US Department of Education\u2019s response to workforce development crisis and the innovations piloted In Philadelphia to reskill Americans on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noon to 1:30pm, Brennan Hall, Rose Room, 509<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.scranton.edu\/index.php?com=rsvp&amp;eID=8507\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP Here\u00a0<\/a>or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:emily.brees@scranton.edu\" target=\"_blank\">emily.brees@scranton.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on Monday 11\/24 for a Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon with Judith Renyi, Ph.D. Executive Director, The Mayor&#8217;s Commission on Literacy, Philadelphia The Great Learning Gap &amp;\u00a0Why We Must Do Something About It In October 2013 an international study of literacy revealed that the US had fallen below average among 23 first world [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-schemel-forum-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}