“It’s not much of a report card. Half of Americans say U.S. schools are doing only a fair to poor job preparing kids for college and the work force. Even more feel that way about the skills kids need to survive as adults, an Associated Press poll released Friday finds. ‘A lot of kids, when they get out school, are kind of lost,’ said Jamie Norton, a firefighter in Gridley, Calif. ‘When you get out of high school, what are you educated to do?’” (06/27/08)