[voletti]

and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found.

AP exagerrating for efect as usual? Why not take the logical next step and lay blame where it is due, namely the lib-dominated school system?

[pissant]

That's why there are liberals in the world. Reason and logic are not taught anymore.

[baystaterebel]

Once again.............

A college diploma is not a certificate of higher intellegence. It is only proof of further education.

[DoughtyOne]

It becomes clear why the members of the media are less able to evaluate issues and what to print.

[thoughtomator]

and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers

Which is why one of the first things every college freshman sees when arriving on campus is a credit card company's pitchman.

[Knute]

From my own observations I concur. I think a college degree today is indicative of less acquisition of knowledge than a high school diploma 20 years ago.

Yes, we MUST blame it on the government schools which have allowed this decline.

[Wheee The People]

i kant uderstood a word off these article

[ElkGroveDan]

Most US students not literate enough for complex tasks

They got that right.

I'm a professional writer and as the years go by more and more people think I'm some kind of genius for being able to put words to paper, that evoke feelings and emotions or biting satire that makes people think. I suspect that in my parents' generation I would have been just an average writer.

Dumber and dumber...I fear for our nation's future.

[holymoly]

More than half of students at four-year colleges in the United States - and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks

Not to worry, they can always get a job as a "journalist" with the Associated Press.

[CarrotAndStick]

This...like...article is like...umm, like...aahsumlee over-exaggerating, mannn!

[Ludicrous]

OK Pakistan. Keep telling yourselves that the US is a bunch of morons.
But at least US students can CHOOSE to seek higer education in much higher per capita numbers. While college-aged Pakistanis are illiterate due to social-class discrimination and gender discrimination.

[Gorzaloon]

and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found.

AP exagerrating for efect as usual? Why not take the logical next step and lay blame where it is due, namely the lib-dominated school system?

Genrally I relish reports of bloated NEA damage.

However, people DO pass the LSAT and go on to Law School to make certain that credit card offers, software agreements and the like are as unreadable and patience-tiring as possible. Such was a bad example, Herewith the afroesaidmentioned notwithstanding, excepting the Party of the Second Part, Hereinafter called...&etc.

[AlaninSA]

Why not take the logical next step and lay blame where it is due, namely the lib-dominated school system?

There are two places to place blame:

The NEA for protecting poor performers...

and the majority of parents of public schools who expect the school to do everything related to their child's education...

And people wonder why my kids are in Catholic school...

[6SJ7]

Most students at community colleges and four-year schools showed intermediate skills. That means they can do moderately challenging tasks, such as identifying a location on a map.

You sure don't get much to show today for a $200,000 college education.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

INteresting.

Liberals tell us that colleges are hot beds of liberalism because they are better educated.

However, it now appears that college grads don't possess critical listening or reading skills.

That is probably why they are liberals, not education but lack of education.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

INteresting.

Liberals tell us that colleges are hot beds of liberalism because they are better educated.

However, it now appears that college grads don't possess critical listening or reading skills.

That is probably why they are liberals, not education but lack of education.

[mtg]

More than half of students at four-year colleges in the United States - and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers...

If understanding credit card offers is considered a complex task, then we're in real trouble.

[freeangel]

What's to understand about credit card offers? Get one card, pay it off monthly and throw the rest in the trash.

[Bullish]

NO surprise. 50 years of dumbing down and liberalizing education takes its toll.

[Snoopers-868th]

Boy, would this generation be in trouble with personal accounts for retirement!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Considering that 80% of courses in Liberal Arts are pure drivel, is this surprising.