European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 11,1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 in Washington apr half of All four year College graduates participating in a literacy study  understand a bus schedule according to a report released Friday. Only 35 percent could consistently do such tasks As writing a Brief letter to explain a Billing error said a report written for the education testing service of Princeton  Only 42 percent were Able to write about an argument made in a Long newspaper article or contrast the views expressed in two editorials about technologies available to make fuel efficient cars. Although the United states prides itself on having the Best system of higher education in the world literacy Levels among its graduates vary widely the report said. Graduates of four year and two year institutions a Are certainly More literate on average than those who do not go to College or do not graduate a the re port said. A but their Levels of literacy Range from a lot less than impressive to mediocre to near alarming depending on who is making the judgment a the report said. At the same time the reports authors ets researchers Paul e. Barton and Archie Lapointe conceded that there were few ways to measure the Quality. Of a College education. The authors looked at three sources of information for their report. Findings from the 1992 National adult literacy study showed among other things that the most literate College graduates work the most weeks each year the higher the literacy the higher the earnings and parents education Levels greatly influenced the Levels reached by their children the study found. The scores of tests College graduates take to get into graduate school a the graduate record examination and the graduate management admission test a showed that literacy Quot has risen among students who go on to study for advanced degrees. Participants in the 1992 National adult literacy study were classified in five Levels of literacy. The top 25 percent of adults with Only a High school education scored higher than the Bottom 25 percent of people with a four year College degree the report said. Only 11 percent of four year graduates and 4 percent of two year graduates reached the top level where they were Likely to be successful at a task such As summarizing two ways lawyers May Challenge prospective jurors. About half of the four year graduates and three in five of the two year graduates failed to reach the level where they were Likely to be successful at Reading a bus schedule or using an instructional pamphlet to calculate the yearly amount a couple would receive for supplemental Security  for trial Colin Ferguson 36, accused in last years Long Island train massacre gestures in a Mineola n.y., court Friday after a judge found him competent to stand trial. Ferguson 36, who has said he is sane nodded in apparent agreement As the judge issued the decision. The shooting on the Long Island rail Road train dec. 7, 1993, left six passengers dead and 19 others  guards not doing Job report says Milwaukee a one of the prison guards who was supposed to be watching Jeffrey Dahmer was missing and another was a jamming to music and talking on the phone when the serial killer was beaten to death a television station reported. 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