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Posted: Jan 20 2006 at 8:06am | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc
Most College Students Lack Skills

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Thanks, Angie.

"The survey showed a strong relationship between analytic coursework and literacy. Students in two-year and four-year schools scored higher when they took classes that challenged them to apply theories to practical problems or weigh competing arguments."

Why this nearly defines homeschooling

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Angie, I didn't see you had posted this article just before I posted a link to a similar article this morning.
It's pretty appalling stuff, eh?

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Great minds post alike! On one hand it is awful stuff. On the other hand, it is reassuring that home educators are onto something...you know, that real learning stuff .

BTW, I can't be the only one NOT surprised by this report. Sheesh, after 6 years of college, I didn't consider myself well educated AND I was missing real life skills. I've learned more worthwhile things while fulfilling my vocation and home educating my children for sure. Sad but true.

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Angie Mc wrote:
BTW, I can't be the only one NOT surprised by this report. Sheesh, after 6 years of college, I didn't consider myself well educated AND I was missing real life skills. I've learned more worthwhile things while fulfilling my vocation and home educating my children for sure. Sad but true.Love,


This is very true, and I do think it's one of the reasons that many people are led to homeschool. We can address these issues on a very personal level.

This is from the article:
"The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips...They cannot interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school."

These are skills that I hope my children have developed years before they go off to college....

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Doesn't surprise me at all. When I was teaching Environmental Science labs at our local University I was blown away by the basic skills and knowledge the students did not have. What's more, they didn't seem to care that they didn't have it.

I guess they couldn't help it. After all, most of them were the products of our fine public school systems.

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