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Read it and weep: After decades of reporting five levels of literacy, the largest adult literacy study in the world has dropped the top level.
Can you read me now? Researchers in the world’s largest adult literacy study dropped the top level of literacy in 2013. Too few people to count can read at that level.
The reason: Just 2% of adults worldwide — barely enough to count — performed at Level 5. So researchers combined it with Level 4 in their most recent report.
Welcome to the world of literacy today, according to the latest Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC.
PIAAC is an enormous, every-10-year study of adult literacy, developed and organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education. The study seeks to determine how well adults are prepared to function in today’s society.
Here’s what they learned in the latest study.
Most read at basic or below-basic literacy levels.
Some 52% of all Americans (global literacy rate: 49%) have basic or below-basic reading skills.
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