On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, SA wrote:
> So it's not surprising that the younger cohort has higher literacy
> scores than the older cohort - a pattern that exists in every country in the
> OECD study. What's surprising is how limited the increase was from one
> generation to the next. The increase is much greater in every other OECD
> country. In the US, the younger cohort's scores are +20 points lower than
> they would have been if the (very regular) pan-OECD pattern had played out in
> the US.
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but is it possible this was because the US was starting out from a higher literacy base?
Michael