The
most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack
basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic
skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.
Still, the results of 9 - and 13 - year - olds would have been the
most relevant for Green to include because her article mainly focuses on the
basic math skills students learn in elementary grades.