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Why the Bad Spelling and Grammar on GLP? Only 25 percent of new COLLEGE grads are proficiently literate
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Idiot college grads can't read or write!
Finally, there's solid proof that today's college graduates are morons.
According to a shocking new federal report, just 25 percent of new grads are proficiently literate. That means three-quarters of this country's university students are sent off with little more than basic skills in reading, writing and comprehension.
It's hardly better for the "smarties" who go on to graduate school: Just 31 percent of tomorrow's doctors, lawyers and PhDs can competently deal with the English language.
"Scores fell from 1992 to 2003 for virtually every educational level, and the declines were steepest, by and large, the further up the ladder one moved," the online magazine Inside Higher Ed reported.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy tested 19,000 Americans in 2003 -- the first nationwide study of America's literacy rates since 1992. As an increasing percentage of Americans earn college degrees, more of them are leaving with diplomas they can barely read.
A university degree was a rarity in the United States as recently as the 1940 -- only 10 percent of Americans had even gone to college and 75 percent hadn't even finished high school. And those lucky or privileged enough to attend university actually left school with real knowledge and skills.
Today, nearly a quarter of Americans have a university degree by the time they're 25, and these college-educated dummies are confused by nearly everything they read.
The new graduates are so stupid that federal researchers were forced to drop "advanced" literacy from the results, downgrading the top performers to a "proficient" level of literacy. Successfully comparing different viewpoints in newspaper editorials or being able to figure out an instruction manual -- actual tests used to compute the highest levels of American literacy -- aren't exactly "advanced" skills.
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