While it gives a general overall picture of illiteracy in the U.S. I could not find on the site where it separates out native born literacy from immigrant literacy.
The **really** important statistic to know is literacy among the native born because that number would tell us how well our schools ( government, private, and homeschool) are functioning.
I found it interesting that only 15% of the population is considered to be reading on the most advanced levels. That would likely be nearly everyone here on Free Republic,
You might want to differentiate between illegals alians and legal immigrants. I suspect that the literacy rate among legal immigrants approaches 100%.
I found it interesting that only 15% of the population is considered to be reading on the most advanced levels. That would likely be nearly everyone here on Free Republic,
You will, no doubt, be stuned to learn that that is not the case. Check your beeber.
If 14% of adults can indeed not read sufficiently, it is NOT, I repeat, NOT because of the failures of the school system.
It’s because of the failures of THEMSELVES. Bad schools are bad because of bad students.
Go into any inner city classroom - the first thing you’ll notice isn’t the inept teacher, but the crazy ghetto trash kids that don’t give two sh*ts about learning, usually because their mother is a crack whore and their father is absent.
I’m not saying there aren’t bad teachers - but the problem lies in the students and the parents that “raise” them.
“I found it interesting that only 15% of the population is considered to be reading on the most advanced levels. “
THAT is frightening.
Thanks in advance.