Something like 14.3% of the current US population is foreign-born, and we can assume that the proportion of school-age children is somewhere around that as well

Something like 14.3% of the current US population is foreign-born, and we can assume that the proportion of school-age children is somewhere around that as well. About half are from Latin America. That's absolutely going to affect regular education metrics. And it's going to affect it increasingly, as the proportion of foreign-born has risen continuously from 4.7% in 1970 to 14.3% today. There's nothing misinformed about any of this. It's quite possible reading is getting worse among native speakers as well. Or not at all. My point is that you can't tell unless you separate out the two populations in the literacy statistics. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findi...