America’s Most (and Least) Literate Cities

Wall Street 24X7 ^ | 02/24/2014 | By Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander E.M. Hess Read more: America’s Most (and Least) Literate Cities

[chajin]

Literacy is a skill. Driving is also a skill, but it is better to know to where people are driving, rather than whether they can drive--a nation of people who drive to church will outshine and outlast a nation of people who drive to street-corner meth dealers. By the same token, it is more important what you read, after you learn to read. A group of literate people constantly reading socialist or fascist writings, or pornographic or vulgar-laden writings, would be better off illiterate, as poor of a life as that would be--though of course the best of all is to be literate and fill one's mind with the great writings of humanity.

[Mad Dawgg]

"I don’t buy a lot of books these days but I have a considerable library on my kindle and read from it every day not to mention all that I read online."

Once I found that you can get all manner of free books for the Kindle PLUS you can use it to borrow books online using your local library card I quit buying physical books except for those I know I will read over and over.

[skeeter]

Thats ‘yob’, mang.

[GailA]

Need to add Memphis Tn to the list, most schools are under threat of state take over. HS Grads who go to JR College and have A/B average math grades most of them have to do remedial Math before they can take courses that need Math. What few graduate that is.

[jmcenanly]

How do they account for electronic books and newspapers? With my Kindle Fire™, wherever I go, my bookstore and library go with me.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Yeah, 'em jagoffs dun't know what dere talkin' abaht!

Smack 'em upside the head with a gumband.

Yoy!

[lakecumberlandvet]

If D.C. is the most literate city then literacy obviously is not an indicator of common sense and intelligence.

[knittnmom]

Bingo. So I’m really surprised Madistan did not show up in the top ten.

[skinkinthegrass]

newpaper circulation
Liberalism in print.

[The Great RJ]

Newspapers...who reads them anymore? My local paper has such little content a daily edition isn’t thick enough to line the cat box. I once told the editor that when I read his paper I read the front page, the editorials and the comics and most days couldn’t tell the difference.

[Catmom]

But it’s the Chechens you really gotta look out for.

[bagman]

I also wonder about the utility of using the number of bookstores as a measure of literacy. I recently heard of something called Amazon.com, which seems to be some sort of a bookseller.

[strider44]

True. The Irish haven’t set off too many bombs lately.

[Oratam]

hablamos espanol

[SeekAndFind]

RE: hablamos espanol

Yes, that would be considered literate too (provided you can speak English better or just as well ).

[Buckeye McFrog]

Plus we had a guy named Carnegie who went around here building libraries all over the place a century ago.

[Dexter Morgan]

El articulo dice que si vives en San Antonio, no puedes leer.

[Donkey Odious]

Que?

[Donkey Odious]

Que?

[x]

Not much of a survey. Cities like Mesa, Aurora, and Anaheim don’t have daily papers of their own because they’re part of a larger metropolis. That doesn’t make people there illiterate.