[lbo-talk] Literacy stats

[Chuck Grimes]

Below is a chart on US adult literacy: Go down the
page to Percentage of adults in each, prose, document,
quantitative literacy level 1992 and 2003

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp

Go down to Number of Adults in Each Prose Literacy
Level. The numbers are broken down into Below Basic,
Basic, Intermediate and Proficient.

14%(BB), 29%(B), 44%(I), 13%(P) corresponding to
30 million, 63 million. 95 million, 28 million.

The top notes, No Significant change between 1992 and 
2003

There are all sorts of interesting stats on education
that might be useful for public ed advocates.