On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:36:53 CDT, Paul Schmehl said: > Cuba's literacy rate is 96.9. The US is 99.9. Statistically > insignificant, but nice try.
It seems to have fallen about 19.9% overnight then: http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/03/19/adult.literacy.ap/index.html Functional illiteracy rate is 36% in Washington DC, 21% nationwide. And it's *functional* literacy that matters - if they can't read and/or write well enough to figure out a subway schedule or fill out the job application at a fast food place, does it really matter if some test claimed they were "literate"?
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