August 04, 2004

Minneapolis ranks highest of the literates, study finds

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them, Mark Twain has been credited with saying.

A new study takes that principle a step further, ranking the USA's "most literate" cities not by how many residents can read, but by various measures of how many do. And by those measures, Minneapolis is the most literate, El Paso, the least. >Link

Posted by Admin at August 4, 2004 10:43 AM
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FYI, Fort Wayne is ranked 45th. Amazingly, the original report at http://www.uww.edu/npa/cities/ is so poorly designed (every line of text is rendered as images making it mostly unusable and inaccessible) at the time of posting this, that I had to link to the story on Yahoo News.

Posted by: Jeffrey Melton at August 4, 2004 10:48 AM