Literacy rates

A world of hurt

Global literacy is falling. What’s a communicator to do?

Read it and weep: After decades of reporting five levels of literacy, the largest adult literacy study in the world has dropped Level 5, the top level, for lack of participation.… Read the full article

Can you read me now?

14% of U.S. adults have below-basic reading skills, says PIAAC 2013

Just 12% of Americans read well enough to review search results from a library website to identify a book suggesting that claims made both for and against genetically modified foods are unreliable.… Read the full article

Is Obamacare readable?

AP asks Ann to evaluate online training program

Forget everything you think or know about Obamacare.

Does it represent the country’s worst slide into socialism since our founding fathers tweedled their fifes and thumped their drums in 1776?… Read the full article

We are the world

And we’re not very literate, according to an OECD study

A “severe literacy deficit” haunts the world’s most developed countries. Between one-quarter and three-quarters of the world’s adults don’t have a “suitable minimum skill level” for coping with the demands of modern life and work.… Read the full article