"Only 31 percent of [U.S.] college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it...compared with 40 percent in 1992. Dolores Perin, a reading expert at Columbia University Teachers College, said 'There is a tremendous literacy problem among high school graduates that is not talked about'"

See: Washington Post article (2005-12)

Note that Columbia Teachers College has been a major cause of these problems.