During the Democratic revolution of the 1970's, Jimmy Carter aggressively expanded the scope and reach of the federal government including the creation of the Department of Education. After nearly 30 years, just like the "War on Poverty" we see how federal bureacrats can turn a bad situation into a disaster.
More than half of students at 4-year schools and 75% at 2-year colleges lack the skills to perform complex literacy tasks, according to a study measuring the practical aspects of literacy.
The American Institutes for Research found that these students couldn't interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates or summarize results of a survey.
Still, literacy rates of collegians was higher than that of average U.S. adults.
Our only hope is for the States to mount a revolution of their own and rest control of this broken education system from the feds and bring it back to local control.
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