Poverty, pandemic, and policy collide
What literacy now means , and what it no longer guarantees
Where literacy dies young
The technology trap
A starved system
A nation losing its words
In classrooms across America, a quiet catastrophe is unfolding. One in four young adults, aged 16 to 24, cannot read beyond a basic paragraph. They can make sense of a menu, a short text, a road sign. But when words stretch into ideas, they falter.The data, released in December 2023 by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in partnership with the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), is unflinching.
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