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23% Of America Is Illiterate
Following on the heels of the dumbing down of the State of the Union speech we noted yesterday, we thought a simple visualization of just how stunningly poor our nation's reading skills really are would be useful. One in five Americans lacks the basic reading skills beyond a 4th grade level - are you one of them?
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I used to live in Florida. Its universities had great literacy rates and an "outstandin' corch", our outstanding representative Corrine Brown discussed this. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgbBP9Em00A
No need to read with EBT and Obama phone
You read that somewhere?
i heard the demagogue in chief saying we (certain special interests of his) DESERVE the vote. to say we 9again certain friends of his he listed them) DESERVE something which is constitutionaly guaranteed is to imply that we no longer have that right (was there a Diebold salesman standing behind him?) to say that also implies that he has taken it from us, and now he wants to give it back, because we deserve it? why do we deserve it? have we been good little ducklings? and if we haven't then we no longer derserve it and must go to bed with no dessert (read votes). thank goodness he approves of us.
i hope it's a head shot for that fucking parentless nigger
That graphic is illiterate.
Bakersfield is no where near where they show it.
Or it's Petaluma that's most illitterate.
I iz edumakatid! Moar fluoride!
most Amerikans it seems would say, should say and indeed will say, put me in a FEMA camp! I want to be clothed & fed.
I have no idea what this says or what it means.
the idea is to say something you will not know the meaning of.
Ha!
Its clear now the data is from 2003.
To Wit:
Adult illiteracy costs the US more than $200 billion per year...
But a small bunch of literate fucks put us in a Quadrillion Dollar jam, since 2003.
Don't give me this song and dance about how much the unwashed masses cost when pedigreed cost us so much more.
Hey NEA: this will not help your cause. Leave it alone.
19% had visual difficulties?
If those 19% were sent an opthomologist to get glasses; how would the stats change?
ZH is trying, so hard, to tell Americans that we are ignorant.
I think we read, when we can see, just fine.
We suffer from Israeliitis. A condition of being deprived of honest discourse.
We, the Gentiles, are being decieved.
The Zionist attempts to deny you a honest vision of this world; twisted by the one they worship at midnight.
They use any means possible. Even stooping so low as to manipulate a nigger to decieve us and feed us lies.
Sorry Mr. President, but you will always be a nigger to your zionist masters and a nigger at the AIPAC lunch.
I support the cause to empower the negro. This country has gone backwards since the civil rights act of 74.
Negros had more power when they were segregated and collectively maintained Black power structure in the segregated neighborhoods.
Has the Zionist helped the negro by dispersing them from their zones?
I say no!
The Zionist is the Negros enemy.
The Jew enslaved the negro by sailing to Africa, and trading rum for slaves, sailing and delivering slaves in exchange for molasses, and the circle of Jew treachery continuous to this day.
The negro blames the white man for his misfortune. It was/is the Khazar who bought and sold the negro.
The Zionist guilt will never be erased, never forgotten. Just look at how they enslave the Palestinians!
The God of Moses will smite all of his chosen ones because he is a cruel and angry God.
The Jews will fuel our cars and heat our homes. They beg to be smitten.
METHINKS Tyler Durden simply posted this article to see how many racist schills would reply with the usual racist crap.
As a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, I was deluged with comments from the CATLICK ex 'Father-In-Law' about how the Joos are the root cause of EVERY PROBLEM IMAGINABLE, many aeons ago.
helping_friendl... ,
You may now go attempt to anally fornicate yourself.
Of course, since your 'member' is smaller than most, you will NOT be successful, and be left alone, with the feeling of loss and failure that seems to be engrained within the alternet 'master trollers' nowadays.
If YOU make your CONTRIBUTION, YOU will get the 'better seat':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm71Khu5-Lk
Zionists and Athiests and CATLIKS and all lovers of Mammon instead of God are 'open season', as per your current circular logical reasoning evidence.
"Has the Zionist helped the negro by dispersing them from their zones?
I say no!"
Has HATRED of race or races become so prevelant in your reasoning that it is now LAWFUL to eradicate anyone who does NOT agree with your HATRED?
YOU say YES!
GEE, if you just KILL everyone who thinks and acts DIFFERENTLY, then YOU can have all the GOLD!
That is where the jew has intentionallly and irrevocable brought us.
They didn't figure on people like me, though.
People who will happily massacre a "jewish" parade AND make my lucid points.
We're ALL thinking it.
Certain americans like yourself are so stupid you should be grateful for the jews owning your ass and bossing it around.
When I looked at the data from 2 million homeschoolers I was shocked, shocked.
They averaged in the 85th percentile across all subjects. 35 percentile points higher than the USA mean, thrashing both US public and private school kids.
600,000 Finland kids are considered #1 in the world, but these 2 million USA kids would wipe everybody out if they represented a seperate country. They would be seen as a country of geniuses. They also average 85th percentile across all measures of social development, such as maturity and communication skills.
Sad fact is that an average kid coming from a public school will also get up to the same high level after just 2 years of homeschooling. Naturally, no one from Govco is investigating how they are able to do this. Homeschooling is a gateway drug to a literate society and engineering schools.
Homeschooling is wonderful, but IMHO homeschoolers are merely holding the line on the old American normal. Homeschoolers are mostly self-taught or taught by a few parents with limited time and knowledge. These children would do even better if they had expert teachers or tutors (homeschoolers tend to be mid-lower income and cannot afford private instruction). So it's not that these homeschoolers are so extraordinary, it's that the government schools are so bad.
"Eat, Drink, Sleep and Play."
Pray? It's Lent. I always start out really bad and end up really well by Easter.
dude
Call an ambalamps I be leakin'.
You done don't haveta be litterate to survives in da jungle. Ook Eek.
Kids growing up aren't interested in studying, they're interested in PLAYING and HAVING FUN and EXPLORING and stuff. Once they get out of school, nobody has TIME to study.....they're all too busy busting their asses trying to stay fed and get laid and make the car payment and rent and fighting inflation and all the rest of the thievin' crook schemes designed to steal their money. It takes considerable free time as well as an almost peculiar motivation to 'learn' about what's REALLY going on in life. Simple survival in itself is exhausting and leaves zero energy for intellectual pursuits.
Once a person gets out of 'school' (grade 12), most never read a book again. They're actually turned OFF by learning. (I'll admit, it does make your head hurt!). And who needs to? Hell, now we have TEE VEE (Freddy: I know, I know!) All sorts of bells and sounds and guitars playing and voices with lots of deep basetones and pictures! My gawd the pictures! American 'culture' is learned from the BOOB Tube, starting at about age 3. Cartoons teach our younguns all they need to know about American society. By the time a kid's 7 or 8, he's been fully indoctrinated. It's all downhill for most of them from there.
I think we should pretend/expect to play it up a little bit here on Zero Hedge. I mean we are the most free albee corrupt country in the World. I'm thinking we should make it seem better than it is because we may at one time win it back with a Libertarian Hedge or a Librarian Edge.
- Once a person gets out of 'school' (grade 12), most never read a book again.
If this is true (and I suspect that it is true), this is both a damning and particularly sad reflection on out "modern" society.
It means reading has become associated with a chore / necessity, not with pleasure, and that cannot be a good thing for our future as a society.
"Save are teachers"
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You can blame the lefty, lib progressives and their new approaches to edja-macation, like whole language learning, where the child will just "pick it up" as they go along, as in learning to spell.
Good luck getting that jib.
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Whole language learning only lasted a few years in my school because it was a massive failure. And I had actually learnt to read a few years earlier thanks to my older brother who taught me to sound words out and read to me every night. But this was in Canada - I really don't have any stats on how it played out in the states.
YO! Hey, Eh?
Kewl that hookd on fonics werked for ew (ur yur older brother).
'I' before 'E', except after 'C' (or in the sound of 'A', as in 'neighbor' or 'weigh').
THIRTY days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 (except for February, which is a bastard child and has 28 every 3 years, and 29 on the fourth, due to the fact that we couldn't figure out what to do with the extra time that seems to be appearing as the Earth's rotation around the Sun is slowing down, proving out the physical theorum of the laws of Thermodynamics, in counter to the current 'evolutionary theory', which has taught all the children that 'in every day, in every way, things are getting better and better'.
Your brother was wise in teaching you those things.
The second generation after myself seem to be REALLY STUPID, here in the CONUS.
I hope that this gives you some of the 'stats' that you are seeking.
Remember seeing this a kid and loving it (along with conjunction junction). Your NPR did once did do some cool programming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fXm4FOMPM
Who really wants that jib? .......There is a lot to say for phonetics and why can't people just communicate our own needs plainly. I mean, really, have we ever?
Bakersfield, I blame Buck Owens. But the poison air, water and society don't help.
Hey now, don't get down on Buck Owens; more talented and literate than a passel of Washington D.C. PhD's.
Don't get down on Bakes either. Lots of people actually live there.
Illegal Mexicans surpass black literacy in an average of 10 months !
The number is more than 23%.....more like 35 to 40%.
I've been teaching at a major university & found found about 50% didn't deserve to go to college. In addition, today's SAT's are too easy that they are useless in gauging literacy rates.
hero
WIL SOMEONE PALEEZE PASS THA JELLY?
I'm not illiterate. I know who my Mama and Daddy were.
23% of NEA teachers are idiots .... the rest are mostly retards !
What the Hell!?!?!?
My kids were reading at Freshman College level by 7th grade.
You have to try to be that illiterate, or is it a government program?
That's just the synthetic cocaine working.
Freshman college level stuffs are too easy.....especially calculus.
Freshman chemistry is 7th grade level in many foreign countries.
hero
Public education is a government pogrom !
Public and private education is almost all established to form bricks for the wall. To shape thinking so people act as they're expected to, in order to maintain the status quo.
I suggest to see this, just to have anther perspective:
"La Educación Prohibida" (Forbidden Education)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A1yRrebasw
It struck me reading through the comments here that there are two types of people in this world: those who think they're smart, and those who think they're smarter. And always the twain shall meet (to go at each other).
It has OCCURRED to me that there are posters on this site who are not here for a rational discourse regarding differences of opinion.
They seem to be obsessed with posting comments which are condescending and meaningless, and make references to old, dead white people who didn't have the guts to use their real names when authoring books of 'import', such as Samuel Clemens (AKA 'Mark Twain').
That 'PITH HELMET' really becomes you.
That is what the Tories liked to wear when in India and China, in order to deflect the spit that the Opium-crazed victims of the HongKong and Shanhai Banking Cartel (HSBC) heaped upon them in spite.
It just 'struck' me, reading your comment and seeing your 'avatar', that you are not here to contribute; but rather to try to create divisiveness.
Fuck me
Stop embaressing yourself you idiot.
ZH has endless numpties like you - post unthinking verbal diarrhoea for a while then disappear... (yes like me too)
You say nothing important because you are a dimwit.
i myself am a sage and if you all had followed my call on platinum back in decmeber then gisele bundchen would be yours.
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12/29/2012 - 19:49 3105635 BigDuke6 Happy Hogmanay FP.''i'll be buying platinum in 2013... if i can save the pennies.''
If by “creating divisiveness” you mean not marching in lockstep with the members’ prevailing opinions, then I will agree. As one who has been here since Day Two (and registered when “Anonymous” was no longer permitted), there exists a long body of commentary and articles I have contributed to the site. Some are merely quips, while others either present opinions or offer data and experiences.
I believe your use of the terms “condescending”, “meaningless” and “divisive” would be defined as disagreeing with you. In addition, you know full well that anyone who offers an opinion that varies from fairly narrow parameters gets verbally smacked down by the peanut gallery, in ways that are the height of impoliteness, condescension and scorn, and are as far apart from honest debate as could be. If you disagree with that you are deluding yourself. Do you wonder why so many of the original members have left for other sites, or who merely read what Tyler writes without ever logging in?
I wonder if you are so quick to admonish those who merely write “gold bitchez”, “fuck Bernanke”, "false flag" (has there ever been a real flag in these folks' minds?), or something about “the Jooos” for the ten thousandth time?
Zerohedge is not your Mama’s womb. Cut the cord and play, or go away. Tyler has banned plenty of people over the four years he’s been up and running, and if and when he decides I am a site detraction, he’ll send me packing. That’s his prerogative, not yours, not mine, not anyone else who visits here.
As for avatars, I chose an historical albeit controversial figure whom I find interesting. Should I have chosen bouncing boobs or a cult sci-fy figure instead? Are you really Scottie, and you’ve just beamed back down from the final frontier, or are you as “gutless” as Samuel Clemens?
Which way weste ? It hasn't changed in quite a while .... it's still opposite easte ?
I'd say that 23% could also apply to Congressional Republicans.. but that's probably a disservice to fourth graders, the overwhelming super-duper majority of who know how to share at playtime.
I.E.:
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!
Asking people about 9/11 is a very good test
"parents who can't read..."
blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah
hey, just beat the shit out of the kid,
it worked for me :-/
Sometimes we gloss over things that were really junky and I am sorry you had to live through that.
I am dumb spelchecker,but still can prononce-fuck you bernanke,and all of your comrades.
Bakersfield Ca. where there is a huge number of hispanic farm workers. Yes we have about %20 of our population that can't speak english at all not including honey boo boo.
You have great Fireworks on Fourth of July and that makes up for a lot.
23% may be illiterate but it's the government which can't see the writing on the wall.
This is sofa king we todd did....
Oh yeah? Well, my Dixie wrecked!
What is this article about?
is this a permitted illustration of that stat?
Trashy Mom Gets Tased ~ Mothers of the Year
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e06_1359380173
and this video got nearly 6500 comments and 1.3m views, amazing!!
frankly, unlike reading the many tedious articles here that is demanding... watching this funny video is really entertaining, giving laughs...ALOL!!
Life imitates art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0iqz4ento
That 23% need help filling out absentee ballots, and ACORN is there to help them vote for names that have a big D next to them.
This is actually reality. The poll workers at my voting location had SEIU t-shirts on. They were very graciously helping people who couldn't speak english fill out paperwork. What a country.
FOWARD
Don't Trust "The Patch" or whatever Drone web-newspaper they claim themselves to be.
How can I say I love you Zero Hedge? That I'm always thinking of you in that Cat Stevens Kind of way? I am so pleased we are us, and you are you. I adore you. And may many blessings you will reap. :-)
As a Zerohedge poster daily, I think I can represent all the heterosexuals here and say, "we can digitally and verbally bang" here in the comments anytime! You got many Valentines here and I'll be your Huckleberry. BTW, I had my cat read the article to me....she is typing my responses too.
Talking of cats. As you seem to like them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Caa-QEY-FA&feature=channel_page
Very Funny Thanks :)
Zero Hedge is Awesome and I love you Lots! Happy Valentine's Day! You Guys! You are more loved than you know! Ever will know, or Ever will believe! True Gift :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_0U3DlLFSU
Thank you.
I will stop incriminating myself now.
Thank you.
I cannot see my comments so I keep on adding more! My illiterate heart loves you beyond belief, and if a solar flare takes us out, I want you to know you are loved. Not many people or websites can say that. You are the love that I feel when Huffington will not take my posts. You are the real, untrepid life we lead to great joy and fortune. God Bless You and I will always love you no matter what. Happy Valentine"s Day! Never forget how Awesome you Are!
I'm an idiot. It's obvious.
Do you hate my guts? Is that what Fight Club is about?
I see your illiteracy and raise you Santa Cruz.
This shit is f*cking hilarious.
Meet Chairman Bernanke's Replacement - Happy Hour In Santa CruzI did go to a 9/11 Truth Conference in Santa Cruz. Amazing. Lots of really bright people who knew what they were talking about.
I refudiate this claim!
TL;DR
Wait for it: Cat Stevens: How Can I Tell You I love You? Not that much, it's just Valentine's Day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsk5MJeV5Qc
Aint the State of the Union supposed to be a speech, vocally delivered? If so, what has it to do with litteracy and illitteracy?
Probly cause he had to read it from the teleprompters in the corners.
23pc illiterate, does it mean that 77pc are literate?
'Americanism' at work, just as the non consumers are the primary problem in an overconsumption situation, the small percentage of illiterate has to be the problem.
Ah, if only 100 pc of the population could be literate, what a marvellous future it would be, all the 'american' promises would be delivered on.
But there are those pesky 23 pc illiterate, they are in the path of 'american' evolution...
Nope. It's the literate folks that're the problem cause if they weren't literate, then everybody would be the same and there'd be no such thing as illiterate.
Cat Stevens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-IZTZkTY8
They might not read,but they can think. Cat Stevens Once Again, It is A RetroPlay of Love for All At ZeroHedge, All Those Around the World that Believe in Positive Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4
Who Needs to raad when you can sing? Buddy Holly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4
If we expand the definition of 'illiterate' to people who don't understand the difference between their/there, your/you're and to/too, that 23% figure would increase to roughly 90%.
The 23% are mostly blacks and aliens from barbarian lands.
Who Needs to Read? Weezer: Island in the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3zgYW_FAM
Spanish literacy or English literacy?
Anyway. People need to be able to read to follow orders. !OBEY!
The whole formal education thing is overrated in the sense that many Americans are debt slaves to a University education that taught them pretty much nothing of any real use. It definitely wasn't worth what it cost.
Learning is a life long process, many here at ZH are here to learn more about what they don't know and thats a good thing!
Should be 24%. You forgot Obama/Biden.
Should be 24%. You forgot Obama/Biden.
I'm so right my computer posted it twice. BRILLIANT!
That illiteracy is a helluva drug.
That means that 77% of Americans are able to read aka follow directions. But how many of these people are able to WRITE in a coherent, well-thoughout manner?
my computur rites 4 me, illiterate, fat and dumb, is no way to go thru lifes. celeberate diversidy U haters
Slow news day ...
Any correlation between the percentage of Afro-Americans living in a community and literacy rates? Just saying!
A public school teacher was arrested today at JFK International Airport, while attempting to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide rule and a calculator. At a press conference just before noon today, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al Gebra movement. Although he did not identify the man, he admitted that he had been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of Math Instruction.
"Al Gebra is a problem for us" said the Attorney General. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code words like "X" and "Y", and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle". The Attorney General went on to say "Teaching our children sentient thought processes and equipping them to solve problems is dangerous and puts our Government at risk".
Notice that about 67% are genetically degenerate (mental, learning and other disabilities) - the rest are either too old or are immigrants (cannot do much about the old and immigrants should learn English - less Spanish signs would be a start). The solution is to aggressively trim that 67% as parental genetic testing becomes both widely available and relatively inexpensive. Those incidents tend to occur in families with a history of various problems (mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction, etc).
Control degenerate's reproduction and 90% of our problems will be solved within a generation or two. (based on research done at Harvard)
which means 77% have no excuse
The excuse is that reading is only the beginning of literacy.
If literacy means fully understanding what you read (or hear in the MSM) and being able to draw solid conclusions from it, then the illiteracy rate for humanoid types in America is about 95%. It doesn't help that Hollyweird and the big publishing houses are publishing mostly raw sewage.
They're not illiterate, they just don't speak english. The area cited as the worst offender is about 80% hispanic you idiots. Stop posting this crap.
Hehe.
My kid is such a wise-ass.
He graded his senior year history teachers worksheet handout at a C+ for spelling, syntax and punctuation errors and handed it back to him with the notation " I wanted to give you a B because I know you worked hard on this but it wouldn't be fair to the other teachers."
Teacher was not amused.
I have the answer. Print more money and give it to the illiterate people. That'll fix it.
No wait... better yet! Print more money and give it to the banks to LOAN to the illiterate people! There. Fixed it.
With all the comments this article has drawn I wonder if anyone will even see my query.
Isn't it interesting that comments about America's illiteracy are loaded with incorrectly spelled words?
Blame it on MS Word spell check entitled culture!
I wouldn't call it entitled. If you ever find yourself doing work that involves writing dozens of letters per hour, I bet you'd find yourself becoming dependant on spelling and grammar check after a few months, too.
That's very common on the mess media.
Hmm... I think 23% of the population are tea partiers?!:?