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In reply to the discussion: 54% of Americans read below a sixth grade level [View all]
MichMan
(16,518 posts)20. Educational system should be embarrassed
I suspect the vast majority of those reading at a sixth grade level or below still managed to receive a High School diploma. Just kept promoting them to the next grade, so it was someone else's problem.
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Quality of neighborhoos school teaching, staff and facilities probably has a lot to do with it.
brush
Apr 2025
#55
Normally I'd say "Welcome to DU" to someone for their early posts. But I'll offer you a heads-up instead:
TheRickles
Apr 2025
#23
Wow, really? A racial genetic component to intelligence? Where have I heard that before?
FadedMullet
Apr 2025
#24
Interesting input from Open AI on the subject of race, or "genetics", and reading comprehension
Farther
Apr 2025
#53
Interesting stuff and all from ChatGPT? I confess that I know nothing about ChatGPT but it's probably the....
FadedMullet
Apr 2025
#64
In my travels... I've been in "poor nations" that have higher levels of literacy.
WarGamer
Apr 2025
#2
One thing I never got over working in the Middle East years ago was the kids on the street--especially in Egypt
hlthe2b
Apr 2025
#15
Many older epic movies were written at RL8, like Ben-Hur & The Ten Commandments. I guess we're getting stupider.
TheBlackAdder
Apr 2025
#6
I read that here last week along with the news that we have a 21% illiteracy rate.
elocs
Apr 2025
#7
T💩p said he loves the poorly educated. Truth is, he loathes his rube MAGA flying monkeys.
OMGWTF
Apr 2025
#22
A lot of adults don't read anything not absolutely necessary, and unused skills degrade.
RockRaven
Apr 2025
#44
When I heard that half of kids are in the bottom fifty percent, I was furious! Yes half! That's how bad it is!
Doodley
Apr 2025
#41
Because they want to make kids Christian nationalists. They don't want to teach evolution, black history, birth
Doodley
Apr 2025
#49