Quote:
Originally Posted by Chico23231
Pretty embarrassing with their education budgets, good point.
But again, California and New York…as well as New Jersey have lower literacy rates than West Virginia.
|
chico , you really are as dumb as a bag of rocks .
chico the cherry picker . I Like how you left out Texas and Florida . You all so forgot to mention that NJ has
https://worldpopulationreview.com/st...rates-by-state
5. New Jersey
The fifth-lowest literacy rate in the United States is in New Jersey, where 16.9% of adults lack basic prose literacy skills, and 83.1% are literate. Despite this, 38.6% of New Jersey adults have a Bachelor's degree or higher, the country's fifth-highest. Additionally, New Jersey also has the third-best public schools.
Of those who have low English literacy skills, 35% are White, 2% of whom are born outside of the U.S.; 23% are Black, 3% of whom are born outside of the U.S.; 34% are Hispanic, 24% of whom are born outside of the U.S.; 8% are of other races/ethnicities. Non-U.S.-born adults comprise 34% of the U.S. population with low literacy skills.