Optional to Microblog MemesEnglish • 21 hours agoPeople Will Not Read Itimagemessage-square65arrow-up1405arrow-down17
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•9 hours agoIt’s even worse than that: 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). So 1/5 can’t read at all, and over HALF can’t read better than an 11 year old.
minus-square@ValmondlinkEnglish1•4 hours agoHow does that work out, are there 50% of 11 yo in the USA? :-) Jk
minus-squareOptionalOPlinkEnglish1•4 hours agoNooooooo! IT’s because the DeMoCrAts didn’t address the needs of the working pooooooor! nooooooooooo!
minus-square@UnderpantsWeevillinkEnglish1•3 hours agoI mean, you think this is happening exclusively in red states? DC is bright blue and they’ve got some of the worst schools in the country. And if you want to know why… Michelle Rhee’s Reign of Error Privatization, downsizing, teaching to the test… Twenty years of NCLB has taken its toll. Even then, there is something of a silver lining Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text message abbreviations and school literacy outcomes The advent of modern text communications has created significant social incentives for improving literacy at younger ages.
minus-squareOptionalOPlinkEnglish1•42 minutes agoIf reading is the only driver to voting preference, then yes. Otherwise, no.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•8 hours agoAnyone curious, I fact checked this and according to snopes it’s true. This is just sad. https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/
It’s even worse than that:
So 1/5 can’t read at all, and over HALF can’t read better than an 11 year old.
How does that work out, are there 50% of 11 yo in the USA?
:-) Jk
Nooooooo! IT’s because the DeMoCrAts didn’t address the needs of the working pooooooor! nooooooooooo!
I mean, you think this is happening exclusively in red states?
DC is bright blue and they’ve got some of the worst schools in the country. And if you want to know why…
Michelle Rhee’s Reign of Error
Privatization, downsizing, teaching to the test… Twenty years of NCLB has taken its toll.
Even then, there is something of a silver lining
Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text message abbreviations and school literacy outcomes
The advent of modern text communications has created significant social incentives for improving literacy at younger ages.
If reading is the only driver to voting preference, then yes.
Otherwise, no.
Anyone curious, I fact checked this and according to snopes it’s true. This is just sad.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/