Literacy rates

What’s the latest U.S. numeracy rate?

Fewer than 10% of U.S. adults are good with numbers

Just 9% of Americans can identify the percentage of men who had more than six years of schooling in 1970 from two stacked-column bar graphs representing how many years of schooling men and women in Mexico have had by decade.… Read the full article

What’s the latest U.S. literacy rate?

Just 2% of global adults read at top level

Little confession here: I’m a geek. While you’re out partying on Saturday night, I’m cuddled up with a warm study.… Read the full article

What is the literacy rate in the U.S 1993?

27% of Americans can’t write simple messages or letters

What reading grade level should you hit on the Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog or other readability indexes?… Read the full article

What’s the United States literacy rate in 2003?

33% of U.S. adults can’t calculate the cost of office supplies

Just 12% of Americans read well enough to review search results from a library website to identify a book suggesting that claims made both for and against genetically modified foods are unreliable.… Read the full article

What is the world literacy rate in 2003?

8% of adults have ‘a severe literacy deficit’

A “severe literacy deficit” haunts the world’s most developed countries. Between one-quarter and three-quarters of the world’s adults don’t have a “suitable minimum skill level” for coping with the demands of modern life and work.… Read the full article

Literacy rate in America by the numbers [Slideshare]

Half of U.S. adults read at basic level or below

Let’s start with the bad news: More than half of American adults have basic or below basic prose skills, according to the Department of Education’s latest literacy test.… Read the full article