Seattle Reaches Literacy Peak
This just in...According to an annual survey by Central Conneticut State University, Seattle is the nation’s most literate city in the United States. Wow!
The ranking, based on the culture and resources for reading in the 69 largest U.S. cities, aims to rate cities not on whether their citizens can read, but whether they do. To determine this, the survey examines a variety of sources to rank six factors: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and, new this year, Internet resources.
The latter is based on number of library connections, commercial and public wireless access points per capita, online book orders and percentage of adults who have read a newspaper online. Seattle, Boston and Austin were the top three, respectively, in the category, helping catapult Seattle into the top overall spot. (Seattle was second to Minneapolis last year.)
In case you’re wondering, here are the top 10:
- Seattle, WA
- Minneapolis, MN
- Washington, DC
- Atlanta, GA
- San Francisco, CA
- Denver, CO
- Boston, MA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Cincinnati, OH
- St. Paul, MN
Way to go Seattle!
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