A Pew Charitable Trusts investigation back in 2006 showed that 50% of college seniors failed a practical test. It had asked them to understand a table about exercise and blood pressure, or understand newspaper editorials, or to compare credit card offers.
Graduates are probably less adept today, from more recent test scores being reported.
Employers say many college graduates lack basic skills of thinking and writing. This is not surprising.
About 20% of college seniors did not have the ability to estimate whether their car had enough fuel to get to a gas station. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, the percentage of college graduates’ ability in literacy had declined from 40% to 31% in the past decade.
I have often said, colleges do more for their teachers and staff, than for a large portion of their students. ( See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)
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