A national survey announced today in ‘USA Today measures a key component in America’s social health by ranking the culture and resources for reading in America’s largest cities. The study’s author, Dr. Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, also reports on the impact of the internet on the decline of newspapers and also finds the US doing less well than its global competitors on a key index of literacy. The study — ‘America’s Most Literate Cities 2008 — identifies the top ten cities in this order: Minneapolis, MN 1.5 Seattle, WA 1.5 Washington, DC 3 St. Paul, MN 4 San Francisco, CA 5 Atlanta, GA 6 Denver, CO 7 Boston, MA 8 St. Louis, MO 9 Cincinnati, OH 10.5 Portland, OR 10.5 Minneapolis and Seattle have traded the number 1 and 2 spots over the six years the survey has been conducted. This is their first tie for the top spot. The national survey develops a statistical profile of cities with populations of 250,000 or more. This is the sixth year of the study, which is available online at: www.ccsu.edu/AMLC08. According to Miller, ‘This study attempts to capture one critical index of our nation’s well-being — […]