You'd be surprised. High schools would rather pass students that can't read then have a bad graduation rate because it still comes down to-you guessed it! -money.
We have to remove these dumbed down curriculums{all of them} and take away the monetization of education.
Of course, I'm one of the few people that spells out every word when I text, so what do I know?
Correct. There is a phrase for this dumbing down and passing students for the money and numbers: Functional Illiteracy.
One of my history teachers was ranting about it back when I was in high school twenty years ago. The Department of Education has been screwing us over since conception.
To be fair though, that is a big part of the problem. There are poor and rural people all over the world. The dems here control most (if not all) of those areas and don't do anything to make it better.
How many of the illiterate people in these numbers are illegal aliens? English as a second language?
You'd be surprised. High schools would rather pass students that can't read then have a bad graduation rate because it still comes down to-you guessed it! -money.
We have to remove these dumbed down curriculums{all of them} and take away the monetization of education.
Of course, I'm one of the few people that spells out every word when I text, so what do I know?
Common Core is complete garbage.
No child left behind
Every child dragged down.
^^ This ^^
No Child Gets Ahead
Dubya did that, if I'm not mistaken.
They all did that.
Many years in the making
Means every child is left to their own designs and, apparently, education.
Always the opposite of what gov’t claims.
Daddy said ,first thing to go.The Department Of Education
I hope he remembers that. Reagan said the same thing.
As did Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012.
Correct. There is a phrase for this dumbing down and passing students for the money and numbers: Functional Illiteracy.
One of my history teachers was ranting about it back when I was in high school twenty years ago. The Department of Education has been screwing us over since conception.
Coincidentally, the government has been screwing all of us over since our own conception.
same as health. When it is monetized and serves our basic needs (education health nutrition) it qquickly becomes our mortal enemy
How many of these illiterates are working in our govt.?
Don't know, they're ill-numerate too.
This data is 5 year old, probably 15% or more of our population wasn't born here. Insane. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s-immigrants/
I’d wager it’s pushing 25%.
Probably a lot. The other portion would be poor rural people and inner city people.
To be fair though, that is a big part of the problem. There are poor and rural people all over the world. The dems here control most (if not all) of those areas and don't do anything to make it better.
I bet this counts reading any language. The % that read english is probably much lower.