Last Thursday's field trip took me to areas of louisville that I've never seen before. It's easy to get excited about the recent developments in the Ville, like the restaurants and housing built at Cardinal Town or the shiny new KFC Yum center. With state of the art accommodations popping up left and right, one has to wonder if there is any money left to clean up Louisville. Our city is known nationwide for air pollution. After visiting rubber town and the landfill site I wondered what has been done to help clean up these toxic parts of town. Thankfully, Louisville's recent community efforts have been helping improve our environment. Concentrations of the most common carcinogen found in our atmosphere have been lowered 75% since 2005.
7 Signs That U.S. Education Decline is Jeopardizing its National Security The Forbes article linked shows how our countries poor education system (among other festering problems our country faces) is hurting not only our job market, but our countries defensive lines. Though a great deal of money is invested in our education system, the U.S. compares poorly to our peers in all of the intellectual arenas. The global economy requires foreign language skills, yet 8 out of 10 Americans know only one language. Unemployment resulting from a lack of jobs is one thing, but you know it's bad when there are positions open with no one smart enough to qualify for the job. The ACT has shown us that only 43% of high schoolers are prepared for college and 50% of college freshman are taking courses to catch up on material that they should have learned in high school. Most disappointing of all of these statistics, 75% of those who take the military entrance exam fail. HEL...
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