Graduation versus education

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Within our own century, not much more than 50 years ago, less than one fourth of the children in the United States started their adult life and jobs with a high school education. It wasn't until sometime after World War II that we reached a level at which half of the country's children reached a high school educational level. But while the quantity of high school graduates has continued to increase, it looks like their quality has gone the other way. Dr. Glenn A. Crosby and Dr. Jane L. Crosby of the Washington State University chemistry department, for example, say they have noted a steady decline in the average scores on a special placement examination given to entering freshmen who plan to take university chemistry courses (page 8). The test is not a part of the regular entrance examination for the institution, but is administered by the chemistry department to determine which of three chemistry ...