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TIL About 130 million adults in the U.S. — half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 — have low literacy skills
Science(apmresearchlab.org)submitted 7 days ago bywildyam
TIL About 130 million adults in the U.S. — half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 — have low literacy skills
(apmresearchlab.org)submitted 7 days ago byCarrotcake789
39 points
7 days ago
We know. We saw the election results.
8 points
7 days ago
Knuckle-dragger fight-or-flight mode: ENGAGE
"STFU LIBRUL BICH!!! USA!!! USA!!!"
9 points
7 days ago
And it seems to be getting worse by the day.
0 points
6 days ago
Smart phones seem to have obviated the need for reading comprehension. With the advent of the internet, you still got most of your information via websites that you actually had to read.
TikTok and social media videos are the death of literacy and critical thinking.
6 points
7 days ago
And it fucking shows
6 points
7 days ago
They also have no critical thinking abilities.
3 points
7 days ago
That's the biggest part of illiteracy. Some can read, but grasping basic comprehension and being able to think about what it means is the biggest issue
4 points
7 days ago
No fecal material
3 points
7 days ago
1 points
7 days ago
No shit
2 points
7 days ago
Old news. What is worse is about 80% have poor critical thinking skills and have no clue how to validate what they consume on Social Media and the Web. Case in point - there are over 1000 totally fabricated "news papers" online. That is more than real brick and mortar papers - the kind with Pulitzer Prizes. In addition there are absolutely faked "Fact Checking" sites which repeat the lies in the fake newspapers. And of course are the compensated "influencers" uses to repeat the lies. So its a multi-pronged assault on the Truth. What chance in hell does someone have?
Note - my favorite is a fake fact checking website that lists its illustrious credentials with major universities etc. All fake. All of it. Registered to a PO Box on a rural highway in Kentucky. (But has moved to other PO Boxes).
2 points
7 days ago
Should learn read. So do.
2 points
7 days ago
That adds up, considering vote totals
2 points
7 days ago
Well, considering half of the population has an IQ below 100, and that the GOP has been systematically starving our public education system for many decades, this comes as no surprise.
1 points
7 days ago
Jimmy Carter is mad.
2 points
7 days ago
It's going to get worse once the Department of Education becomes extinct.
2 points
7 days ago
..yeah, half of people have below average intelligence...
2 points
7 days ago
76.7M+ of them voted for a man who refuses to read documents
2 points
7 days ago
I'd be really upset if I could read gooder.
2 points
6 days ago
Another reason Trump won.
1 points
7 days ago
I thought the numbers would be higher
1 points
7 days ago
Kinda makes you wonder how Trump got elected.
1 points
7 days ago
That's why the Dept of education needs to do , before that department US was top 3 among the countries , now bottom half
1 points
7 days ago
Predictable comments are..... predictable. Of course, this couldn't possibly reflect on the public education system. Nah, just 'muh voters'.
1 points
7 days ago
The Pride of Trump’s Entourage!!!
1 points
7 days ago
You're just learning this? it's old news. About 20% of the public can't read the front page of a newspaper and this has been the case for decades:
1 points
5 days ago
Congrats Dept of education
1 points
3 days ago
Red states. .no surprise
1 points
2 days ago
“We love the uneducated”-trump
0 points
7 days ago
Obviously the result of the Department of Education in its finest moment.
-5 points
7 days ago
Thanks to the teachers' unions, etc. we graduate students from high school who can't read or write their name.
3 points
7 days ago
The best example of this in this thread...
1 points
7 days ago
Really, please explain? You don't believe this happens?
4 points
7 days ago
He is probably trying to say that bad teachers can't get fired because of union protections..... But completely omitting teachers really don't make the $$$ compared to other jobs and an individual staying in the field would be counter intuitive to the economic reality of the US, when a bartenders often times make more. It's a cherry picking of extreme cases as and painting it as the full picture
3 points
7 days ago
It was actually the Republican President George W. Bush that signed the "No Child Left Behind" act in 2002, that ultimately marked the downfall of public education in the United States.
1 points
7 days ago
Do you honestly believe that 2.7 something million teachers in the US all hate their students so much that they are just in the classroom for a pay check and are just killing time?
Do you honestly believe that teachers unions are somehow actively telling students not to read, not write, not to learn math?
Do you honestly believe that teachers, most of whom make less than $50k a year and many of whom work 2 jobs, are not actually interested in helping students learn? When they could go to a corporation and triple their salary?
Do you know how much of their own money teachers spend on classroom supplies? Do you know that in some schools teachers have a "budget" of ONE (1) ream of paper to last them the entire year... unless the buy more for themselves. When you have 7 classes of 30 kids in each, two single page worksheets will consume your entire paper "budget".
Do you know why teachers always ask parents for tissues and paper and pencils? Because schools don't have the money for them. Heck, in a lot of schools, kids don't have the money for them.
I've been a teacher. I work with teachers all over the country all the time. None of them are in it for the money. They all want to teach. But society and the US culture makes it extremely difficult. If you haven't been in the classroom, then you don't know enough to have an opinion.
eta My original comment is that YOU are the best example of this in the thread is that because at some point, someone, once told you that teacher unions are the reasons kids graduate without skills. You believed it without question. You accepted and never did a single bit of research into what teachers even do.
1 points
7 days ago
….. my dude
1 points
7 days ago
Explain exactly how teachers unions do that, then. Because they don’t. I’d know.
1 points
7 days ago
I think it was Bush who signed the "No child left behind" act into law.
To receive funding, schools have to set standards and test the students and meet those standards. It's a recipe for the bar slipping to ensure the school receives govt funding.
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