By then, he'd been to six schools, could barely read and was in special education.

With only a few years of schooling, he could barely read and write.

Every year he would have half a dozen nine- and 10-year-olds in his class who could barely read.

"You can barely even read it from a car," he said.

And yet, for the first 30 years of his life he could barely read or write.

I soon learned from studying David's records that he could barely read.

Students are graduating from public schools who can barely read and write.

Some you could barely still read, one or two not at all.

You might have a 100% pass rate with a collection of students that can barely read.

He could barely read the red type, and not just because it was blurred.