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In reply to the discussion: 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. [View all]
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(4,517 posts)56. It is much worse than some may realize.
The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com › archive › 2024/11 › the-e...
Oct 1, 2024 — The Columbia instructors who determine the Lit Hum curriculum decided to trim the reading list for the current school year. (It had been growing ...
The Atlantic said 'elite' college students 'can't read books. ...
Standardized testing is one culprit, another "achievement " from the GW Bush era.
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Business also depends on an educated citizenry, and that's one reason manufacturing won't be back bigly in the US
Attilatheblond
Apr 2025
#5
A friend of mine was a manager at a large Asian car manufacturing plant in Tennessee.
Irish_Dem
Apr 2025
#15
The billionaires are foolish. They made their money with an educated workforce.
Irish_Dem
Apr 2025
#16
Thinking some of them like having to 'import' talent. It gives them power over workers if they can threaten deportation
Attilatheblond
Apr 2025
#23
Commenter on FB said that all the people in the Hands Off protests were 'ponds' paid & bussed in by Soros.
Attilatheblond
Apr 2025
#9
Pretty sure he meant 'pawns'. Wonder how many 'dull normals' out there had hearing problems as kids
Attilatheblond
Apr 2025
#20
LOL. I actually saw someone mangle "Gestapo" a couple weeks ago right here on DU.
Wingus Dingus
Apr 2025
#48
As someone who has worked in journalism for decades, this is easy to believe
misanthrope
Apr 2025
#44
Back in early days of W Bush administration and the Iraq war, I read a scary fact about the Army.
Attilatheblond
Apr 2025
#45
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government;
Ping Tung
Apr 2025
#8
Just read article statingb75% of Memphis kids in k-12 schools cannot read at grade level
SheltieLover
Apr 2025
#12
My grandfather born in Bohemia about 1885, only 5th grade education BUT....
IrishBubbaLiberal
Apr 2025
#25
How many people have you known with degrees from "Christian" schools like Liberty University ?
eppur_se_muova
Apr 2025
#37
I can't say I've had the displeasure. This said, I always keep an open mind when it comes to institutions...
NNadir
Apr 2025
#41
Make a correction for Trump supporters only, and that number will close in very close to 100%.
Aristus
Apr 2025
#18
Many countries tRump & Vance call shithole countries have a higher literacy rate. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2025
#26
I can remember learning to read here in western WI when I was 7 in 1959 & it was life changing.
elocs
Apr 2025
#28