Literacy now is identified as the different ways that people use information in their lives, in their homes, and in their schools.
In terms of what we can do about literacy skills, I think one of the big things is that it's a lifelong issue. It's not just something for kids. It's not that you learn literacy when you're six years old and you learn literacy until you graduate at seventeen or eighteen. Literacy is something that needs to be started in the home and needs to be encouraged through things like family literacy. It continues through the school system, and then it needs to be continued through things like workplace literacy and through literacy initiatives for adults.