Millennials in America are atrocious at math — and not great at reading, either

[whereisjustice]

Perhaps our "run education as a business" approach isn't working so well? Between the testing assaults and endless homework we are creating a generation of burned out students. Schools (and parents) are wasting time with power-point, excel, word, a blizzard of stupid, poorly designed educational websites and tests. Businesses don't see students, they see marks for the market.

The parallels to our fucked up health care system are impossible to ignore.

Try some sample questions. They are painfully basic.

The results were shocking to researchers as American millennials were found to be the most educated generation ever, according to the study.

"We really thought [U.S.] Millennials would do better than the general adult population, either compared to older coworkers in the U.S. or to the same age group in other countries," Madeline Goodman, an ETS researcher who worked on the study, told Fortune. "But they didn’t. In fact, their scores were abysmal."

The study concludes that a more expensive and expansive education "may not hold all the answers."

Wondering how you'd fare on the test? Click here to try a few sample questions or take the entire thing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/american-millennials-least-skilled-study_n_6852650.html

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/millennials-in-america-are-atrocious-at-math-and-not-great-at-reading/

[Igel]

1. Some of them are classic "easy thinking" questions, or nearly so.

Possibly less innumeracy (etc.) and just sheer impatience.

If it's not important to them, it's just plain not important.