This recent survey of American college and university
graduates bears on discussions we've had here. Any such data for
UK, German, French, etc, students? The causes of the
decline are debatable but it confirms that the better (or more)
education, the better the test scores (i.e., graduate students did better
than undergraduates, although both fell over the comparison
periods). The decline may be due to the success of US
colleges and universities in recruiting students from less well prepared
groups and they can't catch up or do the work as well. This has
other implications for the production of scientists and how ID,
creationism, UFOs, astrology, "alternative medicine", TV, etc,
etc, contribute to student education from K-12 through graduate
degrees.
Forwarded by a friend:
Does this surprise any of the
teachers out there? A whole nation of easily
manipulable sheep is being produced.
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> Here's a link to the page:
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http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/16/literacy
This site is a news summary of the original study done by the US
Department of Education; see :
http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/PDF/2006470_1.PDF