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more about #literacy more comments → Smitros: 30 million Americans--seemingly half of whom passed through my classrooms when I was teaching freshman comp. I tried, really. I guess it didn't take. more » skahammer: OK, a tangent: I actually have no faith at all in institutional attempts to define what constitutes "illiteracy" or "problems with basic reading and w... more » Almostbanned: Except that's not what the article says at all. It says that 30% of adults 'have difficulty reading and writing' which is not the same thing. And that... more » pufflehuff: That is a sad stat. more » gawkimo: OMG! It's the Damocles of literacy! (Like that? Like what I did there?) OK, time to go outside. . . more » DeadliestSin: This is my arguement when people complain about that book - at least the kids are reading SOMETHING! more » flossy: I take it that means that 7% of people still registered as Republicans can read? Now that is scary. more » i'm a bottle: That puts us below Peru and Turkey. Go USA! more » Sproing: With video becoming easier to deliver online, I keep wondering how long text will continue to be the dominant web communication method. Pretty soon we... more » Iceland Spar: Yea, but with Live Journal gone and nowhere for people to read the dirty Potter stories, that 50% number seems likely to drop significantly in 2009. more » BadUncle: Getting market data from a poet is like hiring a weaver to fix your disposal. more » Lymed: This past year's sample was a bit off, what with all the fiction coming out in the campaign. more » PromQueen: Also, he writes terrible, terrible poetry. more » -
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30 Million Americans (14%) 16 or older are illiterate. Which kinda makes reading Twilight okay.
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Internet Not Responsible for Rise in Reading, Says Luddite
Reading is up! But don't dream of crediting the Internet for that phenomenon. Dana Gioia, the Bush-appointed chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, would sooner give himself a papercut. More »
