Detroit...is this for real? Illiteracy rates this high?

[BrazenMuse]

I'm reading this article and it is really disturbing...but I figured I'd wander over to DHP and ask some folks from out that way to shed some light...

Excerpt from Detroit Free Press

Nearly half of all adults in Detroit lack basic reading, writing and other skills needed to obtain good jobs but not enough services are being provided to address the crisis, a study warns.

The report, commissioned by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund, found that the current literacy programs and services are not meeting residents' needs.

In a city with an unemployment rate of 20.1%, 47% of adult residents -- or more than 200,000 people -- are estimated to be illiterate.

The full article is here:

http://www.freep.com/article/2011050...cy-study-finds

[Detroitbootybass]

I can't dispute the numbers (sad as that may be). Less than a third of Detroit kids actually graduate and get a high school diploma - and Detroit Public Schools aren't exactly challenging institutions of higher learning.

A shrinking city with a shrinking tax base is a pretty difficult situation in regards to the funding of the school system. You still have way too many schools, too many teachers, and too many administrators for the current public school population (and projected decline of the student size in the coming years).

[geo]

Gretest Cuntry in tha werld!

USA USA USA USA

[Detroitbootybass]

Brazen - Dan Rather did a 2-hour report that aired on HDNet which details some of the issues relating to your original post. I don't have access to the full show, but the link I'm providing has a number of clips that give you a general idea of the educational problems facing Detroit's youth:

http://www.hd.net/blogs/2011/05/dan-...al-disgrace-2/

[BrazenMuse]

Brazen - Dan Rather did a 2-hour report that aired on HDNet which details some of the issues relating to your original post. I don't have access to the full show, but the link I'm providing has a number of clips that give you a general idea of the educational problems facing Detroit's youth:

http://www.hd.net/blogs/2011/05/dan-...al-disgrace-2/

This is far too scary for my nerves...