Functional Illiteracy – the Scourge of the 21st Century?

... developed and socially valuable people. Many of them browse huge quantities of information while failing to internalize any of it. This is the potential for functional illiteracy. Tatyana Zhukova Research is regularly conducted abroad on levels of functional illiteracy. Russian nine-year-olds show impressive results; Russia ranks among the top countries, along with Singapore and others, in education. However, Russian fifteen-year-old high-school students, at an age when they should already be preparing to enter society,...