The National Literacy Institute seems like not a great resource. It’s mostly a consultancy selling programming I think. And their contact info is a Gmail address.
While not a great resource it does match with how public historians are supposed to write. Public history covers statues, monuments, museums and other things. The labels for all of these should he written as if the reader only has a 5th-6th grade reading level and we only expect half of the label to be read. Would not surprise me if it is ever worse than that though.
The National Literacy Institute seems like not a great resource. It’s mostly a consultancy selling programming I think. And their contact info is a Gmail address.
While not a great resource it does match with how public historians are supposed to write. Public history covers statues, monuments, museums and other things. The labels for all of these should he written as if the reader only has a 5th-6th grade reading level and we only expect half of the label to be read. Would not surprise me if it is ever worse than that though.
If you have a source you find more credible that shows different numbers, then feel free to share it.
Not different numbers, but the actual source for some of the numbers. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp
the numbers there don’t look significantly different?
Quick search with first coffee of the morning. I’m not sure the numbers are incorrect, but there are better sources for them.