The United States as in most things has the most unequal education system amongst the developed nations. Public education has gotten so bad in America that according to the National Center for Education Statistics, 48 million adults in this country struggle to read schoolchild basic English, and do not comprehend multisyllabic words. Low education, low IQ, high fear, and resentment. That’s MAGAt world. These are the people criminal Trump manipulates. The obvious solution to this is better public education, and education opportunities for adults and immigrants. This, of course, is why Republicans have been trying to dismantle public education in the United States for years, and why criminal Trump is now proposing a national university to indoctrinate fascism and conspiracy fantasies while charging low or no fees.
A student makes reading progress during a one-on-one tutoring session through Literacy Mid-South. Applicants often face a monthslong waitlist. Credit: ProPublica
They never got the help they needed with learning disabilities. Or they came to this country without the ability to read English. Or they graduated from schools that failed to teach them the most crucial skills.
For a number of sometimes overlapping reasons, 48 million American adults struggle to read basic English, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That may leave them unable to find and keep a decent job, navigate the signage on city streets, follow medical instructions and vote. They’re vulnerable to scams and face stigma and shame.
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The main remedy available is adult education: free classes where they can improve their reading and earn a high school credential.
But the infrastructure for adult education is profoundly inadequate, a ProPublica investigation found — and, as the nation’s persistently low literacy rates reveal, the government’s efforts haven’t done enough to address […]
Terri Quint
on Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:24 am
One of the areas that the GOP has for years down-played and funded less is public education. Why? Well, good history books will tell the truth and the GOP can’t have that! So another ploy they supported was charter schools owned privately and receiving public funds to operate and they have been shown basically to be no better and often worse than public schools. Until the US once again moves toward improving public education and that means paying teachers with much higher salaries and not funding these privately-run money pits, education is not going to improve. And let’s be real—-the majority of these charter schools are in red states.
Terri Quint
One of the areas that the GOP has for years down-played and funded less is public education. Why? Well, good history books will tell the truth and the GOP can’t have that! So another ploy they supported was charter schools owned privately and receiving public funds to operate and they have been shown basically to be no better and often worse than public schools. Until the US once again moves toward improving public education and that means paying teachers with much higher salaries and not funding these privately-run money pits, education is not going to improve. And let’s be real—-the majority of these charter schools are in red states.
Terri Quint