Abstract
Many 17-year-olds do not possess the higher-order intellectual skills we should expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a mathematics problem requiring several steps. ... The Department of the Navy... reported to the Commission that onequarter of its recent recruits cannot read at the ninth-grade level, the minimum needed simply to understand written safety instructions.
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