American Literacy Advantages

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America is known for having freedom to improve people education. There’s so many things that can help people learn how to read and write. Not many country outside of America have literacy, they can’t learn or improve their reading and writing skills for different reasons. America forces student to go to school which it’s an advantage, but sadly a few disadvantage things can happen. Literacy is the ability to read, write and comprehend, it could be learned in many different ways. Not all American kids are able to read, about 1 in 4 children in America grow up without learning how to read. ” Ms. Chance, 43, of Wyandanch, had dropped out of high school when she was 16. "I got my high school diploma when I was 35," she said, and now she is a teacher's

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