Actually, only Canada beats the U.S. according to some statistics that I looked up. And that appears to be due to diversity in the U.S., i.e. although blacks read less well than whites, it turns out that Hispanics have the most reading difficulties, which makes sense of course, since they are not from native-English-speaking families.
I think, based on the same research that I did, that 40% at < 5th grade level is overblown. That's not consistent with the numbers that I've seen. But, I'm not an expert in this area by a long shot.
Fred Bauder wrote:
At 05:49 PM 9/18/02 +0200, you wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
I was watching ABC news and saw a believable statistic, that 40% of the adult population can't read at the 5th grade level.
40% of the adult population of what ? The USA ?
Perhaps the statistics of other English speaking countrys like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England are better so the overal numbers are not so bad. -- giskart
The USA. Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Scotland are probably better, England is probably worse.
Fred
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