Description: The motivation behind the film is simple – over 43 million Americans can't read well enough to get a job and support a family. But the film posits there are actually no illiterate children, just children who haven't learned to read yet. Sentenced exposes this tragic reality and presents a solution for overcoming failing systems and preventing kids from disappearing into society's margins.
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Once you learn to read, You will be forever free. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS
43,000,000 adults in the US struggle to read. —USA DEPT OF EDUCATION
60% of young men entering prison cannot read above a third grade level. —CHICAGO TRIBUNE