Noah Webster's American Spelling Book (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Barrett]

I think the 4 in a 1000 is the more bizarre one. It must be all those
farmers with incredible access to education and non-English speaking
immigrants that boosted the literacy rate. BB

On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Scot LaFaive wrote:

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> Four out of 10 does seem a tad high, in "civilized" countries at
> least. Of course, I'm not sure what the actual estimated amount would
> be.
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> Scot
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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>>> Synthetic phonics is going back to this form of phonetics
>>> first teaching.  It works.  It was said in the late 1800's
>>> that maybe 4 in 1,000 couldn't read.  Now its about 100 times that.
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