Events Tagged: "literacy"

Greek Dark Ages begin - 400-year period of cultural decline, loss of literacy, abandonment of cities

Golden Age of American Learning - 93-100% complex literacy without compulsory schooling

WWII military testing showed 96% literacy rate among inductees (1942-1944)

40% of blacks, 17% of whites functionally illiterate; 500 per 100,000 Americans incarcerated (up from 50 per 100,000 for 140 years until 1930)