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Monday, December 26, 2005
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Stunning Appalling Astounding Disturbing The adjectives are beginning to roll in on the college graduate literacy story, about which UD has already blogged. The adjectives in this post's title come from a Washington Post article (washingtonpost.com, education section), in which various experts and observers express consternation over the basic finding, which is that huge numbers of college graduates, never mind non-college graduates, lack basic reading comprehension. As one commentator says, this was not a test of your ability to understand Proust. It was a test of your ability to read two opposed newspaper opinion pieces and tell them apart. Though not really surprising - despite all those adjectives - this is certainly a scandal. Millions of Americans are going into debt so their children can spend four years eroding their intellect. |