"Many counties that lack programs also double as hot spots of low adult literacy. These are primarily in the mountains of Appalachia, the Southern Black Belt, the Central Valley of California and along the Texas border with Mexico, but they exist throughout the nation. In about 500 American counties, nearly a third of adults struggle … Continue reading One Fifth of U.S. Adults Have Limited Reading Comprehension
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A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
"If the past emergence of newspapers was ‘linked to the liberation of the national bourgeoisie’, where is the social media era leading us?(AM): The social media era has already led us to what Martin Gurri has called ‘the revolt of the public ’. I have described this process as the emancipation of authorship. Before the … Continue reading A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
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