A press release from the organization (see link below, you can also access this page by going to the main-page and on the right-hand side of the screen there is a "Reports from The American Diploma Project" button that will send you to another page with a few press releases):

http://www.achieve.org/dstore.nsf/Lookup/pollrelease/$file/pollrelease.pdf

An age-old question in education to be considered: where does it start?  Where does academic acheivement falter to create well-rounded individuals who can complete the tasks assigned to them?  

Those of us heading into academia will find our own group of students who can not understand mathematics; I believe because they, in many cases, do not want to and feel they will not achieve [if you tell yourself something long enough, like you are bad at math, eventually you will believe it].

But what do you guys think?  Should the burden lie on elementary schools to up the ante?  Or high schools to make their students catch up to the rest of the nation, and the rest of the world???  Or should college professors, or even graduate students, have to suffer with students who have no will to learn the material?