Survey: Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills
Survey: Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills
The gap between the top-skilled and the lowest-skilled is growing, according to a survey of adult skills.
Summary
A new survey by the National Center for Education Statistics reveals that 28% of U.S. adults perform at the lowest levels of literacy, up from 19% in 2017, with a growing gap between top-skilled and lowest-skilled individuals.
The Survey of Adult Skills, which compares literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving abilities across over two dozen countries, found the U.S. remained average as many nations experienced similar declines.
NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr noted these low scores indicate functional illiteracy, affecting basic life and work tasks, though the exact causes of the decline remain unclear.
MAGA is celebrating in the streets!
This is by design, a dumber population is easier to control by the few.
A educated population is beneficial to society as a whole.
That's why the Dept of Education is getting dismantled in the next four years and returning it "back to the states" so that they can privatize things and profit from it.
Damn it feels good to be a
gangstabillionaireYes and no. Easier to control when you are in control but mob mentality can shift incredibly quickly when the mass is just plain dumb. Intelligent people weight their decision, act slowly and methodically and only act quickly when it's absolutely necessary.
“No child left behind or whatever”
-George bush circa 2000s more likely than not
all the other kids were waiting for one of them to learn to read so they all couldn't move on and now no one can read lol
All of the people online that were getting chastised for correcting spelling and grammar left the Internet. Misspelled memes became a thing, and now everyone's fucking retarded. Eating Tiktok for breakfast and shitting Twitter by lunchtime. This fucking species, I swear.
Alien overlords, AI emergence, a fucking ELE asteroid, I'll take anything over this Onion of a planet.
Gonna get worse.
And as for media literacy? Negative numbers.
Can someone record themselves reading this article and send me a link?
There was a similar story posted here on Lemmy about a month ago. On that one it was referring to English literacy only without any regard to other languages.
The article linked here doesn't like to the actual study, so I can't see if its the same thing here.
I mean the numbers here seem very high across the board. I'm Norwegian, and I can't imagine the numbers for our illiteracy to Norwegian being anywhere near that high. It would make sense for the number there to be in regards to English, both for my country and the others there.
Someone posted a chart and it looks like Norwegens are just real good at readin. Seriously though, I'm shocked too as an American. I just assume everyone around me can read except when I'm reminded of our illiteracy problem
The movie idiocracy is turning from a comedy to a documentary!
Financial literacy question #1: how does a tariff work?
I wonder how many of these people went to public school in the US? How many are native English speakers?
