<i>Washington — More than half of students at U.S. four-year colleges – and at least 75 per cent at two-year colleges – lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study has found.
The literacy study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the first to target the skills of graduating students, finds that students fail to lock in key skills, no matter their field of study.</i>
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This is not a new problem but I've never actually seen anything on specific studies. I find it disturbing (and I'm not picking on the US because different degrees of the same problem exist in many countries)