EXPECTATIONS FROM EARLY READING SKILLS DELIVERED

USA VALUES, Inc. Phone 763-550-0769
15066 65th Place N Fax 507-452-2202
Maple Grove, MN 55311 twolfgram@wcprinting.com

January 15, 2007
Minneapolis, MN

EXPECTATIONS FROM EARLY READING SKILLS DELIVERED

It strikes me (as it struck the 911 Commission page 377) that basic opportunity for 100% of children age 3-6 (Literacy as Democracy and Freedom) is a great development that will deliver opportunity for choices, growth and return.

A real USA fix (for the next 10 years) might be to make certain with authority that the child’s sensitive period to learning language (age 3-6) is not wasted before they even enter kindergarten. So the children start kindergarten with equal ready-to-read ability and basic equal Opportunity to Learn. The demographers have clearly projected every child has a high skill opportunity in our future.

Effective citizens are vested in equal Opportunity to Learn and face the prospect of give/invest now or pay more later. This opportunity gap has always existed. While we hold community and schools accountable, it is growth, speed, and prosperity (commerce and profits) that shines the light into this gap creating the new requirement.

It is more productive and positive to just lead the bottoms up GIVING to remove the gap. Giving properly structured is above the law, more effective without the red tape, and generates double and triple blessing because it is a bottoms up process. Can a adult (one-on-one, plus one) deliver Early Reading Skills (ERS) in (200 hours over 2 years) to a child? The plus one is the child’s mom or significant adult.

Our plan would be to truly deliver, ERS to at-risk children using a kit that a willing adult or parent can manage with the initial help of product experts. The effort would meet up with the top down traditional approaches with supporting materials and cover 100% of the children in a territory. Moms and teachers and care providers know when the kids are on track or not. They must want to be on track. A promotional and economic effort to build opportunity is also ethical.

This ERS gift will cost less than .2% of trailing manufacturing shipments and retail sales. It has to be a gift of NEW MONEY to be real. We estimate 143 million dollars per year for the state, 88 million for the metro area, and 17 million for Dakota County. The efforts from the bottom, with new money, might tune up the effort from the top. Commerce and those who make profits have much to gain. The ROI is greatest with the most at-risk.

The ROI will be visible in 4 years. “Investors” will see the return in the child starting kindergarten ready-to-read and demonstrating civility. The family will see the gift as a jumpstart. The school will deal with significantly more achievement ability. Learning will naturally start to build on the language sensitivity period. The apartments and housing will see a jump in value when the delivery of ERS is the promotional norm for the neighborhood. Education creates value and is seen in the real estate as a plus or minus playing out locally, street by street. Owners and renters will know.

As schools and governments tell us they don't have the money; we can now say, yes you do! Just go to the Blogspot; http://ulticharnetwork.blogspot.com/ and start to build character networks; or, go to www.usavalues-character.org and opt in for a gift, give a gift, or just purchase the materials and fund raising kits to start.

USA VALUES, INC. is a start-up business designed in part to promote and publish certain truths about Early Reading Skills Delivery. Products that help the delivery of ERS by adults are provided through USA VALUES-CDP, a 501(C)(3) corporation expecting to link families, paid volunteers, early childhood learning and faith-base resources, schools, corporations and agencies to first deliver 100% of the children to be ready-to-read starting in kindergarten.

Sincerely,

Thomas D. Wolfgram
President – USA VALUES, Inc.