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Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com)
Freshmen and seniors at about 200 colleges across the U.S. take a little-known test every year to measure how much better they get at learning to think. The results are discouraging. From a report: At more than half of schools, at least a third of seniors were unable to make a cohesive argument, assess the quality of evidence in a document or interpret data in a table (Editor's note: the link might be paywalled; alternative source), The Wall Street Journal found after reviewing the latest results from dozens of public colleges and universities that gave the exam between 2013 and 2016. At some of the most prestigious flagship universities, test results indicate the average graduate shows little or no improvement in critical thinking over four years. Some of the biggest gains occur at smaller colleges where students are less accomplished at arrival but soak up a rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum.
Daddy's money is what makes one rich.
Also Daddy's money and connections are what enables one to graduate from a business school and yet be unable to read, write or speak in complete sentences. Critical thinking skills aren't even in the same universe.
Subsequently, one can then become president without the need for daddy's money. For advice on whether to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement, call on a Fox News reporter for advice. I didn't even know she was an eminently qualified foremost authority on climate science.
It's not a profound inability to read or write. Reading at about a 3rd grade level is possible. Stumbling over the adult sized words. Fumbling through the sentence. And then people in the room sigh as they notice the president have the sudden realization of reading comprehension of what he just read. He then tries to explain that sentence to everyone in the room, amazed, not realizing that every adult already understands what he just read.
Trump is not trying to obstruct justice. He's just trying to put a stop to it.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.