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Dec. 16th, 2005
Taken from New York Times:
The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy, given in 2003 by the Department of Education, is the nation's most important test of how well adult Americans can read.
The test also found steep declines in the English literacy of Hispanics in the United States, and significant increases among blacks and Asians.
When the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates.
The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14 percent who scored at the basic level, meaning they could read and understand short, commonplace prose texts.
Three percent of college graduates who took the test in 2003, representing some 800,000 Americans, demonstrated "below basic" literacy, meaning that they could not perform more than the simplest skills, like locating easily identifiable information in short prose.
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Oh wait, it says Asians went up. Bah, so much for high hopes with this English degree. :p
The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy, given in 2003 by the Department of Education, is the nation's most important test of how well adult Americans can read.
The test also found steep declines in the English literacy of Hispanics in the United States, and significant increases among blacks and Asians.
When the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates.
The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14 percent who scored at the basic level, meaning they could read and understand short, commonplace prose texts.
Three percent of college graduates who took the test in 2003, representing some 800,000 Americans, demonstrated "below basic" literacy, meaning that they could not perform more than the simplest skills, like locating easily identifiable information in short prose.
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Oh wait, it says Asians went up. Bah, so much for high hopes with this English degree. :p
Taken from New York Times:
The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy, given in 2003 by the Department of Education, is the nation's most important test of how well adult Americans can read.
The test also found steep declines in the English literacy of Hispanics in the United States, and significant increases among blacks and Asians.
When the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates.
The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14 percent who scored at the basic level, meaning they could read and understand short, commonplace prose texts.
Three percent of college graduates who took the test in 2003, representing some 800,000 Americans, demonstrated "below basic" literacy, meaning that they could not perform more than the simplest skills, like locating easily identifiable information in short prose.
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Oh wait, it says Asians went up. Bah, so much for high hopes with this English degree. :p
The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy, given in 2003 by the Department of Education, is the nation's most important test of how well adult Americans can read.
The test also found steep declines in the English literacy of Hispanics in the United States, and significant increases among blacks and Asians.
When the test was last administered, in 1992, 40 percent of the nation's college graduates scored at the proficient level, meaning that they were able to read lengthy, complex English texts and draw complicated inferences. But on the 2003 test, only 31 percent of the graduates demonstrated those high-level skills. There were 26.4 million college graduates.
The college graduates who in 2003 failed to demonstrate proficiency included 53 percent who scored at the intermediate level and 14 percent who scored at the basic level, meaning they could read and understand short, commonplace prose texts.
Three percent of college graduates who took the test in 2003, representing some 800,000 Americans, demonstrated "below basic" literacy, meaning that they could not perform more than the simplest skills, like locating easily identifiable information in short prose.
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Oh wait, it says Asians went up. Bah, so much for high hopes with this English degree. :p
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Dec. 16th, 2005 10:10 pmSpent this evening watching the rest of GiTS SAC GIG. God, I love a good thinking man plot and this one ran like a Tom Clancy novel laced with traces of Gibson. Not a lot of anime fans on my flist, but the one thing I always respect about this series is that it tries to give you a very realistic political stance. People like to complain about how slow it is, but like "Carnivale," you need to slowly reveal the pieces under alternate pretenses with a prolonged slowness to make the tension come out properly. More shows need to understand that.
( Ranting/spoilers. Avoid this entry by looking at a random meme instead if you aren't interested. )
Now I am without "Carnivale" and "Ghost in The Shell" to rely on. The one good thing about these sort of shows is that you can rewatch them for nuances, but I still need a new series that tries to make you feel like it's worth rewatching.
( Ranting/spoilers. Avoid this entry by looking at a random meme instead if you aren't interested. )
Now I am without "Carnivale" and "Ghost in The Shell" to rely on. The one good thing about these sort of shows is that you can rewatch them for nuances, but I still need a new series that tries to make you feel like it's worth rewatching.
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Dec. 16th, 2005 10:10 pmSpent this evening watching the rest of GiTS SAC GIG. God, I love a good thinking man plot and this one ran like a Tom Clancy novel laced with traces of Gibson. Not a lot of anime fans on my flist, but the one thing I always respect about this series is that it tries to give you a very realistic political stance. People like to complain about how slow it is, but like "Carnivale," you need to slowly reveal the pieces under alternate pretenses with a prolonged slowness to make the tension come out properly. More shows need to understand that.
( Ranting/spoilers. Avoid this entry by looking at a random meme instead if you aren't interested. )
Now I am without "Carnivale" and "Ghost in The Shell" to rely on. The one good thing about these sort of shows is that you can rewatch them for nuances, but I still need a new series that tries to make you feel like it's worth rewatching.
( Ranting/spoilers. Avoid this entry by looking at a random meme instead if you aren't interested. )
Now I am without "Carnivale" and "Ghost in The Shell" to rely on. The one good thing about these sort of shows is that you can rewatch them for nuances, but I still need a new series that tries to make you feel like it's worth rewatching.