{"id":787,"date":"2019-04-29T01:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=787"},"modified":"2025-05-15T23:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:01:47","slug":"gabrielle-morales-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Morales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u2018Uncertainty was attached to everything he knew\u2019:  The Intergenerational Transmission of Functional Illiteracy<BR>\nWhen the U.S. federal 2020 fiscal year budget was announced in March of 2019, the notice of an 11.4% cut in k-12 programs generated an uproar among educators, journalists, and news broadcasters (U.S. Department of Education, 2019, p. 119). Yet, little attention was given with respect for the 24.3% cut in Adult Basic and Literacy Education, as well as an identical 24.3% cut in English (Speakers of another Language) Literacy and Civics Education\u2014of which equal a combined decrease of 48.6% in adult literacy programs (U.S. Department of Education, 2019, p. 120). Little effort has been made for the functionally illiterate parent. President Bill Clinton\u2019s efforts to, \u201cend welfare as we know it,\u201d in 1996 sought to decrease the number of families on welfare rather than decrease the number of families living in deep poverty. With this reform came stringent welfare eligibility requirements and uncompromising General Educational Development assessments (GED) within Adult Basic Education programs (ABE). Meanwhile, within the past three years, there have been zero cutbacks in Career and Technical Education or Vocational and Adult Education grants\u2014thus confining impoverished and illiterate citizens to careers within the manufacturing industry; such programs offer diminutive literacy education. Historically, welfare and adult education reforms have denied opportunities for low-literate and functionally illiterate adults. In thwarting one\u2019s ability to read and write, the intergenerational transmission of functional illiteracy remains. To be clear, this thesis does not serve as a claim against the alleged \u2018brokenness\u2019 of the K-12 education system or welfare system. Rather, it serves to take part in the current body of literature\u2014of which asserts the need for improvement within the adult education system.<BR>\nKeywords: intergenerational functional illiteracy, united states, adult education<BR>\nENG 499, Capstone<BR>\nJenee Cazares &#038; James Watson<BR>\nP114 <BR>\n10-10:30 AM<BR>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1-q65zCVjS3cfRcFpXUPacGxYFZl7s014Z7SIzMD427E\/edit?usp=sharing\">Return to schedule<\/A>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Uncertainty was attached to everything he knew\u2019: The Intergenerational Transmission of Functional Illiteracy When the U.S. federal 2020 fiscal year budget was announced in March of 2019, the notice of an 11.4% cut in k-12 programs generated an uproar among educators, journalists, and news broadcasters (U.S. Department of Education, 2019, p. 119). Yet, little attention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gabrielle Morales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[661,941,171,69,121,666,667],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2019","tag-capstone","tag-cazares-j","tag-eng","tag-eng-499","tag-honors","tag-morales-g","tag-watson-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}