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Test Finds [39% of] College Graduates Lack Skills for White-Collar Jobs
Wall St. Journal ^ | January 16, 2014 | Douglas Belkin

Posted on 01/17/2015 6:24:17 AM PST by grundle

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1 posted on 01/17/2015 6:24:17 AM PST by grundle
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Let’s see the ethnic breakdown of these numbers.


2 posted on 01/17/2015 6:27:38 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Mears

bfl


3 posted on 01/17/2015 6:28:11 AM PST by Mears
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To: grundle

OK.. What’s a scatterplot?


4 posted on 01/17/2015 6:28:44 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: grundle

Are these test results broken down by college major? That would be interesting. I gather those in the sciences and business would score high. Those in the social artistic areas not so.


5 posted on 01/17/2015 6:32:33 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: grundle

After all the stories we have seen posted about “higher edumacation” why would any freeper be surprised??


6 posted on 01/17/2015 6:33:33 AM PST by GeronL
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To: grundle
The problem is that too many "students" are going to college who lack the interest and/or ability to prepare for jobs that require a college education. They'd be far better off with vocational courses, in high school with a one year training program, if necessary, after HS graduation. Another way to solve the problem is to make it easier to be self-employed or start and grow a small business, with HS courses that teach skills that can earn income and manage a business.

The solution involves less students going to college while getting back to the high school diploma meaning something, with acceptance that not all students will earn one. Free community college will just give the least capable two more years of hanging around and collecting government freebies.

Think about it. A young lady out of HS could have one or two children and live very easy with government freebies during her two free years of community college!

7 posted on 01/17/2015 6:34:44 AM PST by grania
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To: grundle

Guess what? They get hired anyway. Try working with them.


8 posted on 01/17/2015 6:38:39 AM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Mamzelle

A type of graph on which the information is shown as individual points rather than as a line, pie chart, or bar chart.


9 posted on 01/17/2015 6:39:44 AM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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“The test doesn’t cover subject-area knowledge; rather it assesses things like critical thinking, analytical reasoning, document literacy, writing and communication—essentially mimicking the baseline demands for professionals.”

Educators see that sentence and incorrectly think that what needs to be done is to teach “critical thinking” skills. The high schools are inundated with programs to teach “critical thinking”. It is ironic that when we still taught content, made people learn facts and information, that they could develop those skills. Now we teach “critical thinking” and children lack those skills.

I guess you actually need to know something before you can think critically about it. Who knew?


10 posted on 01/17/2015 6:39:45 AM PST by cyberstoic
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Tnx—I looked it up; must be a neologism? I guess I can read a “scatterplot”—but I think it’s a poor way to graph…sort of simple-minded.


11 posted on 01/17/2015 6:42:27 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: grundle

Trained to be democrats.


12 posted on 01/17/2015 6:42:37 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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13 posted on 01/17/2015 6:43:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: txrefugee

All sort of categories would be interesting — by institution, type of institution, major, sex, etc. To be useful, this study needs to identify the target for improvement.


14 posted on 01/17/2015 6:44:18 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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That’s the area around the litter box!


15 posted on 01/17/2015 6:44:56 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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16 posted on 01/17/2015 6:47:26 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Critical thinking is not emphasized, since their goal is to brainwash in most cases.


17 posted on 01/17/2015 6:47:42 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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> “The test doesn’t cover subject-area knowledge; rather it assesses things like critical thinking, analytical reasoning, document literacy, writing and communication—essentially mimicking the baseline demands for professionals.”

Critical thinking, logic, and reasoning are not groupthink traits and are forbidden on college campusees for the indoctrinees.


18 posted on 01/17/2015 6:47:50 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Mamzelle

It’s basically an X-Y plot that shows how closely two sets of data are correlated (or not). If the plot shows a lot of scatter with the data points the less the data are correlated.


19 posted on 01/17/2015 6:47:54 AM PST by halo66
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But nobody knows more about the triracial quadsexual pygmy dwarf on New Guinea.
20 posted on 01/17/2015 6:50:34 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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