[ABE-L] Illiteracy in the USA

[Alexandre Galvão Patriota]

Prezad em s redistas,

Seguem alguns trechos de matérias sobre o assunto "analfabetismo funcional
nos EUA". Aqui no Brasil a coisa anda no mesmo ritmo.

"*New York City’s literacy rates are on the decline: nearly 80 percent of
high school graduates lack basic skills like reading, writing and math and
are required to relearn them before qualifying for community college*. "

"*The number of students who lack crucial reading, writing and math skills
is the highest it has been in years, CBS 2 reports*."

Fonte: http://www.rt.com/usa/nyc-graduates-unable-to-read-011/

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Já em 2005:

"*Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and
extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder.*"

"*What's disturbing is that the assessment is not designed to test your
understanding of Proust, but to test your ability to read labels," he
added.*


"*On average, adult literacy is virtually unchanged since 1992, with 30
million people struggling with basic reading tasks. While adults made some
progress in quantitative literacy, such as the ability to calculate taxes,
the study showed that from 1992 to 2003 adults made no improvement in their
ability read newspapers or books, or comprehend basic forms."*

Fonte:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/24/AR2005122400701.html
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Em 2013, segue abaixo o depoimento de uma professor de inglês que admite:
"I'm illiterate"

"*‘Many of our brightest, most enthusiastic teachers have little or no
grounding in English grammar,’ she said.*"

"*They are completely at sea with many aspects of proper usage.*

"*The problem is so bad that two years ago, the head of my inner city
primary school in South Yorkshire had to employ a literacy expert — to
teach the teachers.*"

"*One boy called out the word ‘simultaneously’. I struggled to spell it
twice and in the end had to give up and write ‘at the same time’*."

"*The stark truth is that most people educated in a state school in the
Seventies and Eighties had little or no grounding in grammar. And many of
us have become teachers. Scarred ourselves, we have passed the damage on.*"

"*I’m convinced the rot started in 1964 when Harold Wilson’s Labour
government came to power and abolished the 11-plus in many areas. Parents
were told this was to enable primary schools to develop a more informal,
child-centred, progressive style of teaching, with the emphasis on learning
by discovery.*"

"*I had never heard of them and rushed home that night to research them on
Google. Only then did I discover they are words such as ‘can’ and ‘could’,
‘shall’ and ‘should’, which are used to describe if something is certain,
probable or possible*."

"*But some teachers feel there was no need to understand all those ‘tricky
bits’*."

Fonte:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750072/The-teacher-English-graduate-admits-I-m-illiterate-SARAH-SMITH-blames-liberal-education-dogmas-creating-generation-hopelessly-ill-equipped-teachers.html
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