ILLITERACY IN AMERICA
“NATIONAL DISGRACE” NEW YORK, Sept. 26. America is at present one of the most illiterate nations in the civilised world. This fact has been indicated by official returns and expert classification, and will be remedied, it is hoped, by a bill now before the United States Semite to create a Department of Education, with a Secretary of Education in the President’s Cabinet.
Since the national conscription during tho war disclosed that 26 per cent, of those called to the colors were practically illiterate there have been spasmodic attempts to reorganise the educational •system hero and place it under the direction of tho National Government instead of the individual States, as at present. The fact that 5,500,000 of American children of the age of 10 could not read and write in any language when the census of 1910 was taken is declared to ho. a- national menace and disgrace. In addition, it was revealed thal 3.500,000 persons could not speak or write English.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17116, 23 November 1929, Page 10
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