{"id":20637,"date":"2019-05-13T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?p=20637"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:34:26","slug":"literacy-rate-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2019\/05\/literacy-rate-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy rate in America by the numbers [Slideshare]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Half of U.S. adults read at basic level or below<\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the bad news: More than half of American adults have basic or below basic prose skills, according to the Department of Education\u2019s latest literacy test.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20639\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/awylie\/literacy-rate-in-america-by-the-numbers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20639\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2019\/05\/literacy-rate-in-america\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,282\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which of these statistics surprised you most? 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How do you plan to overcome this obstacle when writing for your audience?&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play.png 500w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/what-is-the-literacy-rate-in-the-us-500-with-play-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>You can&#8217;t judge a book by the cover<\/strong> Your copy may be too complicated for most of your audience. 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