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Those Crazy Thinkers in the Past Thought We Should Teach Our Children How to Use Language

October 19th, 2006 | 2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

John Mark Reynolds, keynote speaker at GodBlogCon, brings to our attention a study that shows the profound lack of literacy American high school graduates possess. Apparently 50% of students who participated in the study have the skill to do basic tasks with language such as summarize the arguments in a newspaper editorial (they still make arguments in those things?).

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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