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Just 9% of Americans can identify the percentage of men who had more than six years of schooling in 1970 from two stacked-column bar graphs representing how many years of schooling men and women in Mexico have had by decade.… Read the full article
Little confession here: I’m a geek. While you’re out partying on Saturday night, I’m cuddled up with a warm study.… Read the full article
What reading grade level should you hit on the Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog or other readability indexes?… Read the full article
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
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
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
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
What reading grade level should you hit on the Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog or other readability indexes?… Read the full article
