Literacy rates

Readability by the numbers | Slideshare

Reach audience members regardless of their literacy level

Let’s start with the bad news: More than half of American adults have basic or below basic prose skills, according to the Department of Education’s latest literacy test.… Read the full article

U.S. literacy rate: Can you read me now?

Just 2% of global adults read at top level

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

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

U.S. literacy rates 2003

33% of U.S. adults can’t calculate the cost of office supplies

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

World literacy rates 2003

8% of adults have ‘a severe literacy deficit’

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

U.S. literacy rates 1993

27% of Americans can’t write simple messages or letters

What reading grade level should you hit on the Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog or other readability indexes?… Read the full article