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[scottobear]

Will I get big brain today, or will I have to huff and puff and bloooooow compusa down?

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via christin - Study: Most College Students Lack Skills
More than 50percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.

That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.

Rest of the article can be found here:
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20060119/43cf1cd0_3421_1334520060119-1850181305

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Heard from Liz for the first time in a while yesterday. That was nice... apparently she's keeping two jobs to bring in the bucks.I'm glad to see she's got some buddies down south.

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You are the little prince.


Saint Exupery's 'The Little Prince' Quiz.
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1 year ago - Sicky Mel, PSA, No new drama month, paypal button for charity, weather, Korean postal robots guards, MA lobster strike, Monkey king, fibs and truths answers, weather

2 years ago - crapulent, British WWII photo archive, Chick Tract, homeowners groups lacking

3 years ago - bawled out my bro, bashed up my hands.

4 years ago - walkies, coloring book fairy, waterlog ear, some dead links and some live ones, full moon birth, good dreams.

5 years ago - Iron Man, brain eating, thinking about my dad, smitten, First experience with a good LJ client, Fred the enema cat.