Report: Literacy Rates in the United States Have Declined Significantly in the Last 30 Years

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess we’re just creating more Boomers now. Boomers 2: Illiterate Boogaloo

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  • bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boomers were the last well educated generation. After they got uppity in the 60s, the elite destroyed the education system to make sure that would never happen again

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• Nog00d@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One wonders if some states are more affected than others

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I couldn’t read the OP paywalled article but other similar articles mostly cite students from low-income families struggle the most. My guess is there are now more kids living in low-income families than before, and declining literacy rates is just a byproduct of growing wealth inequality.

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    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As I recall, over half of all American children live in homes with a household income below living wage.

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• bradorsomething@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not illiterate, I know who my parents are!

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• lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay, somebody tell me what I’m reading here…

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Literalicy? Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Obligatory I didn’t read the article.

  It’s obviously T9 Word’s fault. All these kids out here texting with T9 word, can’t expect anyone to be spelling when they can T9 their way through life.

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  • FarFarAway@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I dont doubt that texting has had something to do with it, there was a shift from phonics based reading to “balanced literacy” about 30 years ago. The approach has obviously failed in a pretty horrible way.

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