Ep 182 Weekly Roundup: 1 in 5 College Students are Illiterate

One in five college students now does math and reading at the level of a 10-year-old.

A 10-year-old paying $150,000 to study systemic oppression from a 29-year-old adjunct who lives in a Kia.

A new OECD report finds that almost one in five American college students are at primary school level, which is fascinating considering public school spending doubled to nearly $18,000 per student.

Yet, according to gold standard PISA scores, K-12s are losing an entire grade level per generation.

Budget goes up, education goes down.

It's blowing up since COVID.

At UC San Diego, the share of first-year students showing up with primary school math exploded 30-fold in just five years.

Interestingly, fully one in four of those math illiterates had received perfect math scores in high school.

In case you wonder what they're doing in school, it ain't math.

At Berkeley, up to 30% of students in calculus show, quote, severe deficits forcing professors to reteach the courses they allegedly already passed.

That's Berkeley, one of the top universities also allegedly in the world.

Even at Harvard, professors say they're shortening readings because students cannot handle complex prose or sustained attention.

So how did we get here? Easy progressives captured government schools, turning them into indoctrination centers.

One study found public school swings kids 20 points Democrat compared to private and religious schools.

The most progressive districts last year, 23 Baltimore schools had precisely zero students proficient in math.

Detroit, 96% of students lack proficiency in math, 95% cannot read.

Note, Baltimore and Detroit spend a third more per student than the rest of the country.

Faced with quasi-illiterate high school grads, colleges have all but abolished standardized testing in favor of essays and soft assessments that let them sell degrees to the unprepared and let them dodge the Supreme Court ban on racial preferences.

can't prove discrimination if there are no standards.

Almost 9 in 10 universities now have discarded standardized test requirements like SAT or ACT.

That's up from half before the Supremes banned race.

This all leaves the last man standing for accountability in our trillion-dollar education ponzi, grades, which you'll be shocked to know are now meaningless.

The percent of high school graduates with A or A+, more than doubled in the past 10 years, Hitting more than half, 54% of high school grads had straight A's in math.

Remember, one in five are at 10-year-old level.

Gets worse at college.