Luna Tick
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"With the start of the new academic year, results from last year's ACT college admissions tests have been made public, and the results are disturbing. The incoming freshman class is woefully unprepared for college. The class of 2016, as a group, failed all four subjects the test assesses: English, math, reading, and science. According to ACT, only 25 percent of students are proficient in all four subjects. Sixty percent came up short in two of the four subject areas, while more than 25 percent failed to demonstrate proficiency in any subject at all. If the point of high school is to prepare students for college, high schools are clearly failing. Unfortunately, this doesn't stop the undereducated masses from heading off to the ivory tower each year."
Public High Schools Are Not Doing Their Jobs - Economic Intelligence (usnews.com)
That is alarming. It makes me wonder why it is, in fact, possible to become highly literate in the United States, but evidently kids are graduating high school with poor literacy levels. I think its evident that most people on this forum are extremely literate.