Can You Read This? (Wombat’s World)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on December 18, 2005 
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Comments(0) What the study highlights is not this problem, one educators know well, but the overall impact of the failure of education in this country. The study reports that only 13% of the population achieves the level designated “Proficient.”
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Only 13% of the population? What percentage of the population graduates from some college? Surely more than 13%! Yet so many are apparently incapable of the skills required to pass my Freshman Composition course. Clearly, we are falling down on the job. It’s easy to see why: education has no value, but it has prestige.
[Here is an interesting post from Wombat’s World. “Wombat” is a professor and fellow Comic Scholar teaching in Houston. My reaction: Yikes! BK]
category: Literacy