Let’s see the ethnic breakdown of these numbers.
bfl
OK.. What’s a scatterplot?
Are these test results broken down by college major? That would be interesting. I gather those in the sciences and business would score high. Those in the social artistic areas not so.
After all the stories we have seen posted about “higher edumacation” why would any freeper be surprised??
The solution involves less students going to college while getting back to the high school diploma meaning something, with acceptance that not all students will earn one. Free community college will just give the least capable two more years of hanging around and collecting government freebies.
Think about it. A young lady out of HS could have one or two children and live very easy with government freebies during her two free years of community college!
Guess what? They get hired anyway. Try working with them.
“The test doesn’t cover subject-area knowledge; rather it assesses things like critical thinking, analytical reasoning, document literacy, writing and communication—essentially mimicking the baseline demands for professionals.”
Educators see that sentence and incorrectly think that what needs to be done is to teach “critical thinking” skills. The high schools are inundated with programs to teach “critical thinking”. It is ironic that when we still taught content, made people learn facts and information, that they could develop those skills. Now we teach “critical thinking” and children lack those skills.
I guess you actually need to know something before you can think critically about it. Who knew?
Trained to be democrats.
Critical thinking is not emphasized, since their goal is to brainwash in most cases.
In the late 1970s, my dept head hired a young black lady as a technical writer. She had a college degree (Psychology major) from a state university.
The lady could not even write a complete sentence. She would sidle up to others in the department and ask them to help her compose her reports.
After a couple of months of this, I happened to be in a research room when another staffer came in. In the general conversation, the topic became the new tech writer. We both had the same problem — spending too much time trying to help the black lady write up her assignments. Then, the head tech writer came into the room and we included her in our discussion. WE were all on the same page. We didn’t have time to do OUR work and the black lady’s work. The head writer took our complaints to the Dept. Head. He was forced to release her. Luckily for him and the company, she was still on her intitial employment probationary period.
We wondered how she managed to get through high school and college and not be about to write a sentence. Additionally, we wondered what her thinking was that she would apply for a job as a technical writer. Surely, she knew how limited her writing skills were.
If they could identify a logical fallacy, they’d be far smarter than most of their professors who scarf down every liberal lunacy from global warming to multiculturalism that comes down the pike without seemingly the need to swallow.
Seeing as how the independence that goes with teaching these things—and the portents for people who make decisions on their OWN—impacts this study and the work world, we should not be surprised that these things are not taught.
I would imagine that the number is about the same
for college kids to hold a BLUE collar job.
You don’t really need those skills to do most white collar work. Especially not entry level like you’d be doing right out of college.
What is the reason for having “white collar workers” in an organization? Let’s break it down a little. What is the reason for having a white collar worker in a business? What is the reason for having a white collar worker in government?
Human beings are bags of emotions walking around. You can be the best employee in the world, but if you look like the guy the boss caught screwing his wife, you’re going to get fired (the boss doesn’t want to be constantly reminded about his wife cheating).