More (not so) fun facts:
54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
21% read below a 5th grade level, which is considered functionally illiterate.
High immigration numbers don’t fully explain it either, as first gen immigrants only make up about 1/3 of those with low literacy.
affirmative action is fucked up, and often undermines itself. it should be done away with, and often it’s used by well-off minorities to secure educational resources that they already have in abundance from their wealth and deny less affluent whites.
it should be replaced by economic affirmative action. which is far more equitable and would benefit poor minorities more.,
it’s effectively dead right now anyway. how that changes enrollments is yet to be seen clearly.