functional illiteracy

When it published its findings in November 2017, the ECU said that the 2009 survey "contained no reference to 'functional illiteracy', and no data which would have justified the claim in question".

Neither the Democrats nor Republicans running for president spend hardly any time discussing educational policy, but the longer that they ignore the real problem facing American society, the likelier they are to welcome the continual catastrophe of functional illiteracy, economic inequality and cultural decay into everyday American life.

LeVar Burton wanted to raise $1M to combat functional illiteracy.

A film on the life of the mind and the sweetness, and bittersweetness, of reason, it comes at a time when the world seems to have fallen back into superstition, rumor, bad information, gut reaction and functional illiteracy even among the nominally educated.

But Best’s functional illiteracy masks an even rarer ability: making money–and lots of it.