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U.S. Adults With Low Literacy and Numeracy Skills: 2012/14 to 2017

Author:     Anna Clark, Aliyya Swaby and Annie Waldman
Source:     Institute of Educational Sciences
Publication Date:     May 2022
 Link: U.S. Adults With Low Literacy and Numeracy Skills: 2012/14 to 2017
Stephan:   Here is what our deteriorated public education system, and the charter schools have done to the American public. The most recent date for which I could find hard facts is a study pushed in May 2022 based on data up to 2017 Here is the headline. In 2017, approximately 48 million U.S. adults had low English literacy skills and 69 million adults had low numeracy skills in English. People with this level of illiteracy, particularly when they are hyper-religious with overactive amygdalas are easily manipulated. This is MAGAt world. The truth is about a third of Americans are simply incapable of understanding why democracy is important. They vote on the basis of their fear, hate, religion, and racism.

Low-skilled adults in literacy in English are those with skills insufficient to complete tasks requiring comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences. Low skilled adults in numeracy in English are those who would have difficulty making calculations with whole numbers and percentages, estimating numbers or quantity, and interpreting simple statistics in text or tables (OECD 2013).

A large-scale international study of working-age adults (ages 16–65), PIAAC assessed the literacy and numeracy skills of the U.S. adult population in 2012/2014 and in 2017.

Participants were interviewed about their background (e.g., education and work experiences) in either English or Spanish. They then completed an assessment of their skills in English. As U.S. PIAAC only tested literacy and numeracy skills in an English-language context, the results indicate only whether participants are literate or numerate in English. Adults unable to participate in PIAAC’s background survey do not have estimates of their skills proficiency and are marked as “Could not participate.”

This group includes adults who were unable to participate because of a language barrier or a cognitive or […]

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