How is it possible that roughly 50% of Americans can’t read above a 6th grade level and how are 21% just flat out illiterate?
How is it possible that roughly 50% of Americans can’t read above a 6th grade level and how are 21% just flat out illiterate?
Question above is pretty blunt but was doing a study for a college course and came across that stat. How is that possible? My high school sucked but I was well equipped even with that sub standard level of education for college. Obviously income is a thing but to think 1 out of 5 American adults is categorized as illiterate is…astounding. Now poor media literacy I get, but not this. Edit: this was from a department of education report from 2022. Just incase people are curious where that comes from. It does also specify as literate in English so maybe not as grim as I thought.
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Same everywhere. I think 53% of people in Quebec are functional illiterate. There is an article today about French students being illiterates too.
The educational system wants this. I start to think it's by design.
As in they’re literate in English but the government decided to stop offering services in English thereby making citizens functionally illiterate?
i'm guessing peobably the opposite? they're literate in french but the national test is in english.
No, nothing to do with language. Functional illiterate means you can read, you know how to read, but you don't really understand the meaning of what you are reading. Maybe Trump is a functional illiterate for instance :)
The same applies in the ROC (Rest of canada) when dealing with their French minority. Latest example is in New-Brunswick where the premier faces an onslaught by eliminating the French as a second language programme.
Alberta done that in the 1920’s without recriminations by closing down French only schools.
Ontario is not better underfunding French services.
I don’t disagree.
@toosoon You must be ill-informed, quite biased and in favour of Québec bashing. The government has English translations available for its minority in “La belle province”. Educate yourself. The information is out there.
http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/publications/DepStatAlpha_eng.pdf
Not everywhere, in Saudi Arabia it's between 3% and 0.6% illiteracy amongst adults.
Functional illiteracy isn't the same thing as illiteracy.
Just checked and apparently worldwide the average is around 15% functional illiteracy...