From sea to shining sea the United States of America is idealized as a nation that leads the world in every category imaginable, yet only places principally in three. The first being the amount of men, women, and children incarcerated per capita, the number of people that believe angels exist, and the United States leads the world in defense spending at 640 billion dollars, more than 20% of the yearly budget. Conversely, we are near the bottom in one specific classification that can lead to the demise of a country that is thought to be flowing with amber waves of grain and plotted with purple mountains as it was put by Katharine Lee Bates in 1913. According to the Brookings Institute, in a report completed by Ron Haskins, Richard Merman, and Isabel Sawhill, from October 2012, the literacy rates of students in the United States are far lower than any other industrialized country in the world.…