The Department of Education was created in 1978. After 34 years
the government has created a nation of low functioning morons
who can barely tie their shoes, but they can text 300 words per
minute. If we just come up with a new slogan and pour another
$100 billion down the teachers’ union rathole, I’m sure we can
bring our 12th graders up to a 6th grade level. Students Fall
Flat in Vocabulary Test U.S. students knew only about half of
what they were expected to on a new vocabulary section of a
national exam, in the latest evidence of severe shortcomings in
the nation’s reading education. Eighth-graders scored an average
of 265 out of 500 in vocabulary on the 2011 National Assessment
of Educational Progress, the results of which were made public
Thursday. Fourth-graders averaged a score of 218 out of 500. The
results showed that nearly half of eighth-graders didn’t know
that “permeates” means to “spread all the way through,” and
about the same proportion of fourth-graders didn’t know that
“puzzled” means confu