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As you read these comments, remember that 56% of Americans read at a 6th-grade level or above; the rest read below that.
Please be gentle.
I recall reading somewhere that adult literacy was at like 98% in the US. Though that was like 25 years ago, and I suppose a 6th grade level still counts as “literate”? Or did we slide backwards?
If we have to talk about this in terms of “grade levels”, at what point is someone actually considered illiterate?
Schools in the US stopped teaching phonics.
WHAT? THEY GET ME HOOKED ON THAT SHIT AND JUST STOP DEALING!?
Not all of them did, just those that bought into these right wing grifters' program. Most that did are reversing it, though, because it has been disastrous.
At least 25 states, including big districts like New York City and Chicago. Even internationally.
Yes. And, 25 is far less than ALL. And your article mentions that program is being dropped all over the place because the science doesn't back up its claims. Even the program's grifters are pivoting to incorporate phonics into it.