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A new survey by the National Center for Education Statistics reveals that 28% of U.S. adults perform at the lowest levels of literacy, up from 19% in 2017, with a growing gap between top-skilled and lowest-skilled individuals.

The Survey of Adult Skills, which compares literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving abilities across over two dozen countries, found the U.S. remained average as many nations experienced similar declines.

NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr noted these low scores indicate functional illiteracy, affecting basic life and work tasks, though the exact causes of the decline remain unclear.

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[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All of the people online that were getting chastised for correcting spelling and grammar left the Internet. Misspelled memes became a thing, and now everyone's fucking retarded. Eating Tiktok for breakfast and shitting Twitter by lunchtime. This fucking species, I swear.

Alien overlords, AI emergence, a fucking ELE asteroid, I'll take anything over this Onion of a planet.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol imagine thinking the reason education is failing is because not enough grammar Nazis are online lol

No wonder y'all are 1/4 illiterate.

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine using 'lol' to start and finish a sentence. I award you the obligatory dunce cap. Go sit in the corner.