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- Illiteracy affects a person's ability to participate in and contribute to the world around them fully. About 18% of the US adult population is functionally illiterate. Hispanics, older people, and incarcerated people are more likely to be low literate than other US adults.
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Nov 7, 2017 · Functional illiteracy is defined as the inability to read and comprehend relatively short texts or understand basic vocabulary. Illiteracy affects 18% of US adults (approximately 57.4 million people), most commonly impacting black people, Hispanic people, and low-income individuals.
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1. : the quality or state of being illiterate. especially : inability to read or write. 2. : a mistake or crudity (as in speaking) typical of one who is illiterate. Synonyms. ignorance. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of illiteracy in a Sentence.
May 31, 2022 · Without intervention, illiteracy has wide-reaching and devastating consequences, condemning its sufferers to shame, isolation, and poverty. Kirsten Levinsohn, executive director of New Haven Reads, a New Haven-based organization that works to foster children’s literacy skills, explains current legislative and community efforts to address this ...
Aug 26, 2015 · According to the findings of the survey, 14% (1 in 7) of adults fell into the category of “Below Basic” in “Prose Literacy,” meaning that they possess “no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills.” Those who fall into this category are deemed “functionally illiterate.”
- Daniel Lattier
- Observations
- Illiteracy and The Internet
- Literacy as A Continuum of Skills
"The subculture of illiteracy is larger than anyone on the outside would ever believe. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) conducted a study of illiteracy among adults in the United States in 2003, the results of which were released in December 2005. NAAL found that 43 percent of the total population aged 16 and older, or some 93 milli...
"As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading, diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books." "But others say the Internet has created a new kind of...
"Illiteracy has fallen from one in five people to almost nonexistent over a century and a bit. But 'illiteracy' clearly isn’t a single on-or-off switch. It’s not just 'you can read and write or you can’t.' Literacy is a continuum of skills. Basic education now reaches virtually all Americans. But many among the poorest have the weakest skills in fo...
- Richard Nordquist
a lack of knowledge about a particular subject: My scientific illiteracy was about to be exposed. Geographic illiteracy is a problem that only can be tackled by making the subject more interesting to students. See. illiterate. Fewer examples. Rates of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment remain high.
a lack of knowledge about a particular subject: My scientific illiteracy was about to be exposed. Geographic illiteracy is a problem that only can be tackled by making the subject more interesting to students. See. illiterate. Fewer examples. Rates of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment remain high.
