The second claim comes from something I heard mentioned the other day in relation to a New Yorker article about parents finding out during covid lockdowns that

The second claim comes from something I heard mentioned the other day in relation to a New Yorker article about parents finding out during covid lockdowns that their elementary school kids couldn't read hardly at all. I guess they've changed the teaching styles so kids don't really learn like most millenials did. FWIW, here's what I was found on Google: > According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 21 percent of adults in the United States (about 43 million) fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category.