Despite relatively high education rates, an analysis of international assessments by Statistics Canada in 2013 showed that more than one in six adult Canadians fell short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests.
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17 minutesVery interesting article! I’m not Canadian, but while Canadians were the focus, the problems sound pretty universal. More reliance on tech, changing job markets, and people not continuously learning and practicing their more basic skills like reading, composition and math are going to be a major hinderance as tech starts to replace jobs where people have comfortably been able to coast on a lot of these skills and will have problems finding better jobs.
- teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 hours
That cannot be accurate. I don’t for a minute believe half of canadians struggle with literacy.
1 in 6 sure.
This is a bad study, I don’t even have to read about it’s methodology to know that.
- 2 hours
The article addresses that actually. Says it was around 1/6 in 2013.
- Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
“This sounds wrong so it must be a bad study, I won’t even bother checking” :(
- Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 minute
Spoilers, Robert Maxwell fucked over Canadian schools too. I’m not sure why Canadians believe they’re so separate from the U.S., but you should probably re-examine that belief.
- Deep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
this title implies you also struggle with literacy.
sorry, that was mean
- 2 hours
Alright the information seems to be from reputable sources, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC) and the conference board of Canada. It’s not that people are illiterate but that they struggle with a high school level English reading comprehension test. It seems it was more like 1/6 back in 2013
