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January 19, 2006

Where Democrats Come From

This article does not paint a pretty picture and the public school unions that monopolize primary education are largely to blame, since these are skills that should be mastered prior to entering college.

Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.

Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers.

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.

People say America is politically evenly divided, so now we know where Democrats get their analytical skills.

Posted by Jonathan R. on January 19, 2006 07:57 PM

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*Chuckles* Nice dig there. ;)

Seriously though, that's terrible! No wonder we (as in my job) have such troubles with College grads and such. Heck I wonder if these same analytical skill levels are shown to their verbal abilities? I.e. if I tell them about these things can they take the information they need from it?

Scary...

Posted by: Gozer at January 20, 2006 02:37 AM

And where do Republicans come from, those people who according to your post don't go to college? Let's examine the article:

"Overall, the average literacy of college students is significantly higher than that of adults across the nation. Study leaders said that was encouraging but not surprising, given that the spectrum of adults includes those with much less education."

So much for your spin bemoaning the literary skills of "democratic" college graduates even when it is "significantly higher" than that of non-college graduates. Give me a break.

Since when did anti-intellectualism become a pillar of Republicanism? Oh, now I remember: when facts started interfering with ideology.

Posted by: Cameron at January 20, 2006 10:56 AM