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70 percent of 2009
high school graduates are enrolled in colleges or
universities. That translates into 2.1 million students of
the 2.9 million 16 to 24 year olds who graduated from high
school last year. Only a quarter of entrants met the
benchmark score for college readiness in english, math,
reading and science. A further decline from previous
years.
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College has become a
booming business in America. Tuition is out of control, as
is the cost of living in most college towns. For example,
four years at Penn State costs nearly $60,000.
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Graduates, and even
those who don't complete their degree studies, leave college
with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, and an
education that (for many) is only a year or two beyond the
high school equivalency of a couple decades ago.
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Students are
ill-prepared for the realities of the corrupt world of
business, politics, war, media and other instruments of
societal control. In short, the dumbing down of Americans is
nearly complete. More than half of the citizenry haven't a
clue of how they're being screwed or what it means for their
future.
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Welcome to the
golden age of slaves with degrees.
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