Sep
09
2011
Aleksey Vayner Finds an Unlikely Solution to Falling Literacy Levels
Posted by Robbin Koirner in Education, tags: Education, educational software, learning, Literacy, literacy levelsIf our kids are our future, then we have got a problem. According to public school stats, less and less youngsters graduate high schools annually, and those who do read at 3 to 4 grade levels lower than necessary. The three-yearly OECD Programme for Global Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the data and talents of 15-year-olds, ranked the U. S. 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading talents, and a unimpressive 25th for arithmetic.

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