Dateline The cost to business at $4 billion per year, The cost of Canadian society has been estimated at $10 billion per year,    Dateline

According to an ACT college entrance exam study, three-fourths of students who took the ACT in 2006 lacked the skills to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing college courses in reading, math, social studies and science, even though they had taken a high school curriculum designed to prepare them for higher education