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Adult Illiteracy in the United States: A Report to the Ford Foundation (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979). Kaestle, Carl F., and Helen Damon-Moore. Literacy in the United States: Readers and reading since 1880 (Yale UP, 1991). Lamport, Harold Boyne.
The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%. The District of Columbia had a percentage significantly higher than that of any U.S. state at 63.0%. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
The best, or swiftest, way to tackle illiteracy is to work with people when they are still very young. “Engaging children in conversation builds grammar skills, language structure and vocabulary ...
In 1880, a quarter of all whites over the age of ten were illiterate. The number was 18.84% in 1890 and 14.8% in 1900. Only two states, South Carolina and Louisiana had higher figures of illiteracy. [10] Comparable national illiteracy rates are 1880 17%, 1890 13% and 1900 11%. [11] In 2012, the state reported 14.8% of all adults were illiterate ...
He points to NEFE research, which in part shows students taking state-mandated financial education courses have a 21% less likelihood of carrying a credit-card balance, have on average $1,300 less ...
Functional illiteracy consists of reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level". [1] Those who read and write only in a language other than the predominant language of their environs may also be considered functionally illiterate in the predominant ...
From the 1890s to the 1960s, many state governments administered literacy tests to prospective voters, to test their literacy in order to vote. The first state to establish literacy tests in the United States was Connecticut. [4] State legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century.