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January 20, 2006
More on literacy
There is a new study of literacy of college graduate, this one by the American Institutes for Research funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The report finds:
there is no difference between the quantitative literacy of today's graduates compared with previous generations, and that current graduates generally are superior to previous graduates when it comes to other forms of literacy needed to comprehend documents and prose.
It also finds that college graduates are have higher literacy skills that the general population.
That is the good (or at least ok) news. The bad news:
Twenty percent of U.S. college students completing 4-year degrees -- and 30 percent of students earning 2-year degrees -- have only basic quantitative literacy skills, meaning they are unable to estimate if their car has enough gasoline to get to the next gas station or calculate the total cost of ordering office supplies.
Maybe OK for the Industrial Economy; a real problem for competing in the I-Cubed Economy.
Posted by Ken Jarboe at January 20, 2006 12:20 PM
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