Re: Formality is going bye-bye?

[John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

Perhaps we're re-defining what literate means.

A recently released study "The National Assessment of Adult Literacy" 
(http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/PDF/2006470_1.PDF) seems to support the 
argument that while more of us may be educated, we're not as educated as 
we used to be. The study finds that the average literacy of college 
educated Americans declined significantly from 1992 to 2003, but it also 
reveals that just 25 percent of college graduates — and only 31 percent 
of those with at least some graduate studies — scored high enough on the 
tests to be deemed “proficient” from a literacy standpoint, which the 
government defines as “using printed and written information to function 
in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and 
potential.”

Scary.

On the other hand, maybe it means a little more job security for us.

My 2¢,

John