[citizen]

I'm late to this thread but the obvious question is does the 14% figure refer to the percentage of ppl that can't read any language or those that can't read English?

Thanks in advance.

[wintertime]

I went to the web site provided, and I could not find the information.

Knowing how much of the 14% was due to legal immigration, illegals, and native born would have been very helpful. It would tell us a lot about the effectiveness of K-12 education system ( home, private, and **mostly** government).

[wintertime]

I also am curious to know how many are men and how many are women. Personally, I think our current government model for educating boys, hurts boys.

[VoiceOfBruck]

My 1st thoughts exactly - do they just mean English illiteracy?

My 2nd thought - what percent of journalists can write?