balderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · 6 months agoWhy are we not talking about this literacy crisis?lemmy.zipimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1425arrow-down114
arrow-up1411arrow-down1imageWhy are we not talking about this literacy crisis?lemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to memes@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareg8phcon2@k.fe.derate.melinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·6 months agoIt’s not just America. I heard on Public Radio that practically every country in the world has scored worse on reading tests since 2020. I think Japan was the one excpetion.
minus-squarePhlubbaDubba@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months agoOf fucking course the country with the most convoluted writing system ever devised by men is the one that’s able to maintain literacy scores lol
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoIt’s not at all that complicated. I’ll take kanji strokes over spelling any day. (I passed ikyuu a decade ago.)
It’s not just America. I heard on Public Radio that practically every country in the world has scored worse on reading tests since 2020. I think Japan was the one excpetion.
Of fucking course the country with the most convoluted writing system ever devised by men is the one that’s able to maintain literacy scores lol
It’s not at all that complicated. I’ll take kanji strokes over spelling any day. (I passed ikyuu a decade ago.)