Ben Filler summarizes on Breitbart a report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education that More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips. … compared with all adults with similar levels of education, college students had superior skills in searching and using information from texts and documents.
In a separate report, the Center concludes, If current trends continue, the proportion of U.S. workers with high school diplomas and college degrees will decrease and the personal income of Americans will decline over the next 15 years, according to a new report released today by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
That’s a glum vision of our future.