Top 10 most Educated States US United States America Literate University Schools College
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Top 10 most Educated States US United States America Literate University Schools College
Top 10 Educated states in US 2017
Rates of literacy in the United States depend on which of the various definitions of literacy is used. Governments may label as literate those individuals who can read a couple thousand simple words they learned by sight in the first four grades in school. Other sources may term such individuals functionally illiterate if they are unable to use basic sources of written information like warning labels and driving directions. The World Factbook prepared by the CIA describes the definition of literacy in most countries as "age 15 and over can read and write." The literacy rates are not completely measurable.
Methodology
Jonathan Kozol, in his book Illiterate America, suggests that the very high figures of literacy may be due to poor methodology. The Census Bureau reported literacy rates of 86% based on personal interviews of a relatively small portion of the population and on written responses to Census Bureau mailings. They also considered individuals literate if they simply stated that they could read and write, and made the assumption that anyone with a fifth grade education had at least an 80% chance of being literate. Kozol notes that, in addition to these weaknesses, the reliance on written forms would have obviously excluded many individuals who did not have a literate family member to fill out the form for them. Finally, he suggests that because illiterate people are likely to be unemployed and may not have telephones or permanent addresses, the census bureau would have been unlikely to find them (and that if they did, these people might be especially reluctant to talk to a stranger who might be a bill collector, tax auditor, or salesperson).
State information
|
State |
% High school graduate |
Rank |
|---|---|---|
|
Montana |
92.8% |
1 |
|
Minnesota |
92.4% |
2 |
|
New Hampshire |
92. |
3 |
|
Wyoming |
92.3% |
3 |
|
Alaska |
92.1% |
5 |
|
Vermont |
91.8% |
6 |
|
North Dakota |
91.7% |
7 |
|
Maine |
91.6% |
8 |
|
Iowa |
91.5% |
9 |
|
Utah |
91.2% |
10 |
|
Hawaii |
91.0% |
11 |
|
Wisconsin |
91.0% |
11 |
|
South Dakota |
90.9% |
13 |
|
Nebraska |
90.7% |
14 |
|
Colorado |
90.7% |
14 |
|
Washington |
90.4% |
16 |
|
Kansas |
90.2% |
17 |
|
Connecticut |
89.9% |
18 |
|
Oregon |
89.8% |
19 |
|
Massachusetts |
89.8% |
19 |
|
Michigan |
89.6% |
21 |
|
Idaho |
89.5% |
22 |
|
Maryland |
89.4% |
23 |
|
District of Columbia |
89.3% |
|
|
Pennsylvania |
89.2% |
24 |
|
Ohio |
89.1% |
25 |
|
New Jersey |
88.6% |
26 |
|
Delaware |
88.4% |
27 |
|
Missouri |
88.4% |
27 |
|
Virginia |
88.3% |
29 |
|
Illinois |
87.9% |
30 |
|
Indiana |
87.8% |
31 |
|
Oklahoma |
86.9% |
32 |
|
Florida |
86.9% |
32 |
|
United States |
86.7% |
|
|
Rhode Island |
86.2% |
34 |
|
Arizona |
86.0% |
35 |
|
North Carolina |
85.8% |
36 |
|
New York |
85.6% |
37 |
|
South Carolina |
85.6% |
37 |
|
Tennessee |
85.5% |
39 |
|
Georgia |
85.4% |
40 |
|
Nevada |
85.1% |
41 |
|
West Virginia |
85.0% |
42 |
|
Arkansas |
84.8% |
43 |
|
Alabama |
84.3% |
44 |
|
New Mexico |
84.2% |
45 |
|
Kentucky |
84.2% |
45 |
|
Louisiana |
83.4% |
47 |
|
Mississippi |
82.3% |
48 |
|
Texas |
81.9% |
49 |
|
California |
81.8% |
50 |
|
Puerto Rico |
73.0% |
US most Educated State
Montana – has 92.8% of high school graduate which is maximum among all states.
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