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32M Lack Basic Reading Skills

Study says Illiteracy crisis getting worse

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 9, 2009 8:18 AM CST

(Newser) – One in seven American adults in the US—about 32 million people—have such low literacy skills that they cannot read a newspaper story or a prescription bottle, a new federal study says. "They really cannot read paragraphs (or) sentences that are connected,"...   Read full story »

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