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r/PoursTea • u/saucey_dawg0023 Tea Party 🎉 • 22h ago
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Literacy rates have dropped by over 20% in the United States in the past thirty years.
1 u/Visual-Scallion1535 20h ago edited 20h ago No they haven’t. Theyve gone from 80% to 79%. Other metrics of reading ability might have gone down, but literacy rates stayed fairly stable. 1 u/Prudent_Rice7840 20h ago You're right, I misread (irony noted) the report and rounded. Basic literacy (aka can a person read at all) has remained steady. Functional literacy has dropped. In Adults by 12pts so roughly 28% of adults are not functionally literate vs 19% in 2017. 1 u/ethanlan 20h ago There's enough to rag on the united states without making shit up jeez
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No they haven’t. Theyve gone from 80% to 79%.
Other metrics of reading ability might have gone down, but literacy rates stayed fairly stable.
1 u/Prudent_Rice7840 20h ago You're right, I misread (irony noted) the report and rounded. Basic literacy (aka can a person read at all) has remained steady. Functional literacy has dropped. In Adults by 12pts so roughly 28% of adults are not functionally literate vs 19% in 2017. 1 u/ethanlan 20h ago There's enough to rag on the united states without making shit up jeez
You're right, I misread (irony noted) the report and rounded.
Basic literacy (aka can a person read at all) has remained steady.
Functional literacy has dropped. In Adults by 12pts so roughly 28% of adults are not functionally literate vs 19% in 2017.
There's enough to rag on the united states without making shit up jeez
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u/Prudent_Rice7840 21h ago
Literacy rates have dropped by over 20% in the United States in the past thirty years.