Schooling Millennials

Welcome to class, American millennials. Sit down and take notes – because you are in for a rude awakening.

According to a report by the Educational Testing Service, you have “weak skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments” when compared to your international peers.

Based on data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, a survey of adult skills, American millennials didn’t perform so well.

Our millennials “scored lower than 15 of the 22 participating countries” in literacy. “Only millennials in Spain and Italy had lower scores,” the ETS report says.

“In numeracy, they ranked last, along with Italy and Spain.”

In problem-solving in technology-rich environments, they “also ranked last, along with the Slovak Republic, Ireland, and Poland.”

And “The youngest segment of the U.S. millennial cohort (16- to 24-year-olds), who could be in the labor force for the next 50 years, ranked last in numeracy along with Italy and among the bottom countries in” technological problem-solving. “In literacy, they scored higher than their peers in Italy and Spain.”

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