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Friday, August 19, 2005

Our schools are spitting out Bush voters, or "Is Our Children Learning?"
Posted by Jill | 11:05 AM

Here's how they build Republicans:

Hundreds of thousands of this year's college-bound high school graduates aren't prepared enough academically to succeed in college, a new report warns.
That was one finding released this week as part of an annual report by non-profit testing company ACT Inc.

The report also says the average national composite scores of the ACT college entrance exam remained unchanged from last year, at 20.9 out of 36 possible points, despite a record number of test-takers.

• About half of test-takers lack at least some reading-comprehension skills, suggesting they would struggle in courses such as history, sociology or literature.

• Just over half (51%) had scores high enough to suggest they could succeed in college-level social science courses.

• 41% had scores indicating a high probability of succeeding in college algebra.

• 26% scored high enough on the science test to indicate they are likely to succeed in college biology.


So OK, they don't read well enough to handle courses in, say, American history, let alone world history. They can't handle sociology courses, so they won't understand group psychology. They can't add, and they can't handle biology.

Sounds like a perfect recipe for creating lots of creationist Bush voters ignorant of history.
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