“One of the most shocking statistics that I’ve seen of late is that 54% of American adults between the ages of 16-74 read below a 6th grade level… Part of what we are witnessing on the right is not just a push to sort of deputize parents to be expert educators but also to to systematically under-educate the public. Because if you make people ignorant, then it becomes much easier to control them…”— Brittney Cooper, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies.
Rutgers Professor: ’We have an epidemic of illiteracy in this country’
