No child left behind broke education in this country. It tied school funding to standardized tests. Schools that do poorly get their funding slashed, and it's a downward spiral. That policy did nothing to address the racial and economic inequity that causes children to struggle in school. Instead of schools teaching critical skills, all the teaching became centered around passing a test; tests that were racially or economically biased. On top of this, schools promote children to the next grade instead of making them repeat a grade when they haven't mastered the material, or make them go to summer school, which is more akin to daycare, and then pass the kid.
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I can understand having a not insignificant portion of people being illiterate (due to various things such as disability, recent immigration etc.), but even 5% is crazy high. 20% is absolutely insane for college.
Then again, aren't 10 year olds expected to read small-medium novels? I can kind of understand someone scraping by on that reading level tbh.
Especially with AI + reduced academic expectations (at least from my experience at Uni which was in response to covid)