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Little too high. Almost 60% of Americans are at a 5th grade reading level or lower. That's 10-11.
Though, I suppose age 12 grabs a slightly higher percentage.
Noooo. Really?
Edit:
What the fuck.
And that surprise isn't at the individuals. Not their fault. Just trying to get my head around how a developed nation could be like that...
Edit Edit: I'm still trying to get my head around this. I get around Europe feeling like a fucking moron for only being basic level bilingual.
Developed nation can be like that when those in power want the masses to be gullible and compliant.
Texas GOP 2012 plank on education:
"We are in a race between education and oblivion" -R B Fuller
Very true words. If only 54% of people could read them, apparently.
But Oblivion already came out. Twice.
"We're in a race between education and Skyrim Remastered"
They gotta have people who will fight wars to make the rich even richer.
Honestly I'm probably at. 6th grade level for math and grammar etc... streetwise... I'm a sage.
When I (briefly) pursued a career in journalism we were told to generally write for a target audience of ~6th-7th grade.
Makes sense.
Depends on the source, but unfortunately even the highest is like 8th grade.
The actual data is pretty complex, but it's suffice to say that we're not educating our kids to good.
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/skillsmap/
I see what you did there.
At least, I hope it was intentional.
Lol, yeah. I'm no genius, but I like to think that I came out of the US educational system while it was still working to some extent. That was a long time ago. The kids in the past few decades, and the ones during Covid... I will never blame them for what we've done to them.
This snippet in the context of Trump