by Sean Coté | Aug 22, 2022 | Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Demographics, Detroit, Education, literacy
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
by d3wpadmin | Sep 11, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, literacy, Uncategorized
By Kurt Metzger, Director Looking back at my fifteen years working at Wayne State University’s Center for Urban Studies, I remember my colleagues’ love for the city and their work with its residents. One person stands above all others: George Galster. George...
by d3wpadmin | Dec 8, 2011 | Danny Devries, Data Literacy, literacy, Louis Bach
It seems that if you spend enough time in Detroit, someone will, sooner or later, tell you that half of the city’s population is illiterate. It happened to us most recently on the December 1st episode of the Craig Fahle show when a caller rang in and recited the...
