I’m not the only one with this problem. The simplest way I feel is the site wide readme.html method or the wp-admin/about.php method.
This wordpress post has four ways to check and this question on stackoverflow had good info. I looked and looked but couldn’t see it in the At a Glance box until later since the top and bottom already were both telling me to upgrade to a newer version.
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