Immigrants Score Lower on Literacy at Every Education Level, C.D. Howe Report Finds

Immigrants to Canada have lower literacy scores than non-immigrants at every educational level, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. The institute is a Canadian research group. Author Parisa Mahboubi finds that university-educated immigrants have English or French literacy similar to Canadians whose highest schooling is a high-school diploma. The gap is 20 points.