Posted on 01/08/2015 4:27:02 PM PST by detective
Dr. Sandra L. Stotsky, professor emerita at the University of Arkansas, recently said that Renaissance Learning’s latest report revealed that a large number of college freshman are reading at a seventh-grade level.
Stotsky, who received her Ed. D. from Harvard, is a well-known and respected figure in the world of education. She served on the Common Core Validation Committee in 2009-10 and, along with colleague James Milgram, professor of mathematics at Stanford University, refused to approve Common Core’s standards, which she called “inferior.”
In a recent interview with Breitbart Texas, Stotsky said:
We are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level, according to Renaissance Learning’s latest report on what American students in grades 9-12 read, whether assigned or chosen.
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That is no longer the case.
But they can TEXT.
That high? Is she sure?
I bet none of them were home-schooled.
I don’t what to ask what level 7th graders read at.
Pretty soon, reading at the seventh grade level will be: "See the cat. The cat is small."
And college students will be expected to read things like: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
And a good many college students will read "at the college level" -- and everyone will cheer the teachers unions.
When our [homeschooled] daughter was 8 she was reading to her cousins (16 and 14) and having to tell them what some of the words meant.
What makes that more interesting is the the 14 yo cousin was considered by the other adults in the immediate family to be a very good student. That was repeated often. But neither of them was reading at anything close to the level our kid was. And no one but my wife and I made the connection that her cousins were getting completely crap educations. Now 22 years later, the cousins have bombed (beyond belief) in life and still no one has ever connected the dots.
So? Boner reads at a kindergarten level.
Ironically, college Freshman level...
They can’t spell (u b mah dream gurl) they can’t write in cursive, they are lazy and have no hope, no dreams and think that oral sex isn’t sex.
They can read that high a level, hunh?
I believe it. I work at a financial firm with a number of college graduates and to read some of their e-mails and text messages it makes me wonder if they really went to college.
Twenty years ago, the chairman of the board of a large company I worked for was always telling the in-house headhunter to IGNORE college degrees and to find executives who had been successful at other companies doing similar jobs.
I can only imagine what he’s looking for today.
Most college student go into deep debt just to learn what they should have learned in high school plus some leftist propaganda (with some debauchery thrown in).
We need fewer people going to college not more. And better precollege education.
Maybe true for some disciplines but since the 1960’s it has been more a function of mom and dad’s money and getting a C average.
And Obama wants free community college. Just keep a 2.5 GPA. Would that be on the 7 grade curve.? We are so helically threaded.
Next...next...wait for it....We are not spending enough money on education!! So, there must be a new government program to “invest” more money in indoctrination...errr.... education.
With 'autocorrect', so can a monkey.
Makes you wonder at what level seventh-graders read.
Sadly, they vote at an elementary school level too.
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