Posted on 07/16/2021 6:30:37 AM PDT by ml/nj
Book burning is where they draw the line.
Bkmk
I was a manufacturer for several decades with our plant located in an inner city area. We were robbed from time to time. They only broke into snack/drink machines - never touched a tool!
Book of the month cancelled- nobody can read!
Literacy is not required to collect welfare checks.
Lol, at least Looterman had his priorities right.
Mensa members are pretty dumb. They pay money to an an organization that flatters them.
Looking around, I was surprised/disappointed to see this:
What's the latest U.S. literacy rate?
https://www.wyliecomm.com/2020/11/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/
“The problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
George Bernard Shaw
Half of U.S. adults can't read a book written at the 8th-grade level, according to the OECD. [4]
The average American reads at the 7th- to 8th-grade level, according to The Literacy Project. [5]
Medical information for the public should be written at no higher than an eighth-grade reading level, according to the American Medical Association, National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
It’s always been known that Barnes & Noble is a totally safe haven in the midst of a riot.
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LOL. Good to know! There’s a Borders bookstore near me.
Chris Rock: If you want to hide something, put it in a book. Cuz books is like kryptonite to n....
What? No comic books or money left in the till or a lost phone?
That right there should show the government where the problem lies. Not race but ignorance.
We are following in the path of South Africa and Rhodesia, so many similarities its mindboggling.
Like math, literacy is racist.
Looking back, abundant data exist from states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to show that by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent wherever such a thing mattered. According to the Connecticut census of 1840, only one citizen out of every 579 was illiterate and you probably don’t want to know, not really, what people in those days considered literate; it’s too embarrassing. Popular novels of the period give a clue: Last of the Mohicans, published in 1826, sold so well that a contemporary equivalent would have to move 10 million copies to match it. If you pick up an uncut version you find yourself in a dense thicket of philosophy, history, culture, manners, politics, geography, analysis of human motives and actions, all conveyed in data-rich periodic sentences so formidable only a determined and well-educated reader can handle it nowadays. Yet in 1818 we were a small-farm nation without colleges or universities to speak of. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?ML/NJBy 1940, the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites, 80 percent for blacks. Notice that for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were nevertheless literate. Six decades later, at the end of the twentieth century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can’t read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled. Before you think of anything else in regard to these numbers, think of this: we spend three to four times as much real money on schooling as we did sixty years ago, but sixty years ago virtually everyone, black or white, could read.
The US is lucky to get so much as 1/3 reading at an 8th grade level.
#1 Massachusetts - 8th grade NAEP proficiency: 50.8% (math) 45.7% (reading)
#2 New Jersey - 46.2% (math) 40.6% (reading)
#3 Vermont - 42.1% (math) 43.8% (reading)
#48 Mississippi - 21.8% (math) 20.0% (reading)
#49 New Mexico - 20.6% (math) 20.1% (reading)
#50 Nevada - 26.1% (math) 27.4% (reading)
Then there is Baltimore and other “clusters” where not a single student is proficient in math or reading. https://www.k12dive.com/news/several-baltimore-schools-report-0-students-proficient-in-math-reading/443155/
Where is the irony? Unlettered criminals avoiding a store vending items of no value to them or potential “customers” is exactly what one would expect.
And -— the books are completely in print —— not cursive!!!
No, work Boots are considered Fashion Accessories in some Lefty circles. They make sure they never get dirty.
Just shows theirs are not any smarter than ours...
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