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Re:Assumptions about how children learn to read have been di... by quantumofmalice on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:10PM (#16838238)
> pretty high 100 years ago

irrelevant: there are no hard numbers for that and that's not the timeframe the article is discussing (since the 90s)

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Re:Assumptions about how children learn to read have been di... by ticviking on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:18PM (#16838638)
Why on earth would that be irrelavant?

Also I'm quite sure the numbers are there, maybe not as crisp as you like, but one could make some reasonable estimates based on immigration records from ellis island and the census through those periods.

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Re:Assumptions about how children learn to read have been di... by watwut on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:29PM (#16838711)
It is irrelevant, because comparison was not done with literacy of people 100 years ago.

Which would also be 1918 which is first world was and results back then were likely to he affected by that big time. And it was also time of racial segregation which would affect a lot too.

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