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Thanks for proving my point.
Literacy by itself is the ability to read and write. You can classify it to a specific area of study as they did historical literacy.
But you did not do that and neither did hazlnut.
Again, know what the definition of a word is and how to use it before you use it incorrectly.
Wrong! It is more than just the ability to read and write. It is the understanding of history. Link
• The NAEP, which is commonly known as the “Nation's Report Card,” shows that less than one-quarter of America's students in grades four, eight, and twelve are proficient in American history.
• Many fourth-graders nationwide can’t identify the first permanent British settlement in the United States. A mere 1% of eighth-graders can explain how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected American foreign policy, and only nine percent know at least two causes of the Civil War.
• The NAEP “report card” on student achievement in U.S. history shows that 53% of twelfth graders are leaving high school with "below basic" knowledge of U.S. history, and just 27% are deemed proficient in civics.
• More than half of high school seniors who took the most recent NAEP U.S. history test thought that Italy, Germany, or Japan was a U.S. ally in the Second World War.
• A survey of college students at fifty-five elite colleges and universities found that more than a third were unable to identify the U.S. Constitution as establishing the division of power in our government and 40% could not place the Civil War in the correct half century.