Monday, May 1, 2006

You could always teach...

American Enterprise reports that over half of students graduating from four-year colleges in the U. S. lack the literacy to deal with such "real-life" tasks as understanding newspaper editorials, comparing credit-card offers, or summarizing the results of a survey. Nor do they have the math skills needed to balance their checkbooks, according to a new study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. - David Schaefer

Sleep well...