Average college freshmen can’t read past 7th grade level, study finds

Monday, January 12, 2015
By Paul Martin

L.J. Devon
NaturalNews.com
Monday, January 12, 2015

Institutional learning is available after high school, in the form of a college education, but it comes with a much higher price tag. Sadly, after 12 years of institutional learning, most college freshmen can’t even read past a seventh grade level. This is the most concerning finding from Renaissance Learning’s newest report investigating what American students read in grades 9-12.

It’s apparent: All those years of a public education taught students merely how to get by. These years hardly inspire students to seek knowledge and skills out on their own. Without even realizing it anymore, public school systems teach dependency instead of self-sufficiency. When it comes time to learn and work in the real world, students are still stuck reading below a seventh grade level. Somewhere along the way, the ambition to expand vocabulary, read and learn had died. Sometime in grade school, cognitive function for assimilating new information peaked and all drive to learn was lost. The A-F grading scale tried to gauge student progress and propel the student body forward, but this system failed to inspire.

Now one must ask, “How can an overpriced four-year college degree help advance the learning process if it is modeled after the same failed institutional learning standards of the previous 12 years?” Do college freshmen suddenly learn to read beyond a seventh grade level once they start taking college classes or are they just there trying to figure out who they are and what they want to do with themselves?

The environment which adolescents are thrust into for up to 12 years is one of social conditioning. Students learn how to copy notes and paste them onto tests. Students learn how to memorize key facts out of a textbook only to forget them a day later. It’s all about getting by, not inspiring students to reach for their heart’s desires, not helping them find their passion in life.

It’s the equivalent of taking a hula hoop and using it as a gauge for children to crawl through. It’s like forcing a giraffe, elephant and a mouse through a hula hoop standard. Children of different creative talents, interests and ambitions are forced through the hole regardless. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t encourage ambitious readers. It doesn’t inspire seekers of knowledge. It creates conformity and the idea that everyone must obey the rules to get by.

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