More (not so) fun facts:
54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
21% read below a 5th grade level, which is considered functionally illiterate.
High immigration numbers don’t fully explain it either, as first gen immigrants only make up about 1/3 of those with low literacy.
yeah but it looks good on paper when you are judging people and districts by metrics like graduate rate.
the problem with education, broadly, it has become reduced to a system of gaming performance metrics by which it’s measured.
it isn’t judged by the individual students, or even individual schools.