Haunting: “The Country That Stopped Reading”

 Today’s Iserotope Extras article is an op-ed about the state of education in Mexico, where high school diplomas yield functionally illiterate graduates unready for the working world.

Here’s what’s haunting: If you replaced every mention of “Mexico” with “the United States,” you might be able to read the article straight through with no problem.

Which is a big, big problem.

Read this article at Iserotope Extras. Or read this article at The New York Times.

Then let me know what you think about it!