the
ACHF™,
American Council
on
Health
&
Fitness™
a locus of focus on the CROCUS™
with initially particular attention on
loci of foci on the CRoCI™
Along with organizations and individuals — with which it is affiliating itself or allying itself or associating itself or collaborating or partnering or cooperating — the ACHF™,
in convergingly joint initiative, is undertaking the further design, development, deployment, launch, maintenance, expansion, and promulgation of
a locus of focus on the CROCUS™
(Campaign for Reduction Operations on Catastrophes in the US™).
Initially particular attention is being put on further developing and expanding
loci of foci on the CRoCI™
(Campaigns for the Reduction of Catastrophic Improficiencies™).
Among the CRoCI™
that crucially need to be ramped up most expeditiously, urgently, and pressingly are:
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the Campaign for the Reduction of Illiteracy,
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the Campaign for the Reduction of Incinemacy,
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and the Campaign for the Reduction of Innumeracy.
Looking simply at the first of these, illiteracy, this is the catastrophic improficiency that many would at first glance think of as the most alarming and fearful.
While anecdotal observations for decades have given indications of the unfolding vanishment of literature and the impending collapse of literacy, overwhelmingly comprehensive statistical and scientific evidence, of the exploding extent of catastrophic illiteracy, has all the more so been emerging just in recent months, as can be seen in the results and contents of these few samples of studies,
surveys, reports, and articles treating of this looming peril:
Marriott, James
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
Cultural Capital
A newsletter about ideas, literature and the arts
2025 September 18
James Marriott
Bone, Jessica K.; Bu, Feifei; Sonke, Jill K.; Fancourt, Daisy
The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey
iScience
A Cell Press journal
Volume 28, Issue 9, article 113288
2025 September 19
Elsevier Inc.
a subsidiary of RELX Group plc
Kahloon, Idrees
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.
The Atlantic
2025 October 14
The Atlantic Monthly Group
Burn-Murdoch, John
Have Humans Passed Peak Brain Power?
The
Financial Times
2025 March 14
The Financial Times Ltd.
a company of Nikkei, Inc.
Schleicher, Andreas; Scarpetta, Stefano (respectively Director for Education and Skills; Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs)
Do Adults Have the Skills They Need to Thrive in a Changing World?
Survey of Adult Skills 2023
OECD Skills Studies
2024 December 10
OECD PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies)
PIAAC BPC (Board of Participating Countries)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Carlson, Susan; Jayawardhana, Ananda; Miniel, Diane
They Don’t Read Very Well
A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities
CEA Critic
Volume 86, Number 1, Pages 1-17
an official journal of the College English Association
2024 March
Johns Hopkins University Press
College English Association
Colombatto, Enrico
PISA results
Poor education is no recipe for economic brilliance
GIS Reports
2024 February 22
Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG
ACHF™
(American Council on Health & Fitness™,
Inc.),
a not-for-profit, 501(c)3, corporation
founded on the 3rd of July 2025, the Eve of the 250th Independence Day, beginning the final year of our nation’s 1st quarter millennium,
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dedicated to enabling Americans to make the most well-informed choices for the betterment of their physical health & physical fitness & mental health & mental fitness & spiritual health & spiritual fitness.
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[The ACHF™
affiliates itself with initiatives of the Fuller Knowledge Alliance™,
of the Knowledge Taxonomy Society™,
and of the Cool Publication Company™.]
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