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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
We started HS'ing about 87-88 I guess...did it K-thru 12...from SoCal to OK....The wife's family...thought we were crazy lunatics. A couple "Masters" prepared educators....within her family...not to mention some doubter's on both sides....voiced their objections.
Well we persevered...not without some doubts along the way. And we sacrificed...money wise.
But it was the best thing we ever did.
My girls are very successful now...And many of their cousins have degree's in "Modern Dance"..and "Foreign Religions"..etc..etc..and living back at home.
It's sad actually.....
Sadly, Sherlock appears to remain in a state of unrelieved constipation.
That’s a Presedential idea! Absolutely Presedential! ;)
Well, that's a relief. I thought it was even worse than that.
Seventh grade? I’d think for Arkansas that’s ahead of the curve...
My kid finished HS several years ago in a charter school (I’m a single parent) that I was likewise condemned for by statist types. She just left the USAF after a successful career as a Jet mechanic on the 117, the 22 the 36 and lastly, flying aboard the doomsday plane with Hagel. And just got hired into a large defense co.
Getting her out of the mainstream public schools was the best thing I ever did for her. She then did the rest on her own. Because she knew how.
Can they read cursive?
Edit...the 35
You know, on the surface the numbers look like we made financial sacrifices. But in a closer analysis, that’s not really so.
* The kid went to (a good) college on mostly scholarships and worked for much of the rest. I estimated that in the 4 years of college AND a year in Korea as an exchange student, as well as 10 weeks backpacking through SE Asia, we contributed about $4 or $5 grand in total. She left for college at 16 so we didn’t pay for a car or car insurance. Ever.
*Never paid a dime for day care.Never missed a day of work for the kid if she was sick. Which was pretty rare because of the germ factories that are day care and public schools. Who knows how much less was spent on doctors because she was sick so much less than her friends in school.
* With her mother not working, car, wardrobe and other necessities for job dropped dramatically.
* And because she is happy and successful in life, any money spent on her by us is a gift of love, not necessity.
We are of the opinion that more often than not, the financial advantages of that second income are largely an illusion.
Education in America was good in my generation-started first grade in 1967- and all generations before. What happened? Liberals decided that school needed to be “fun” and not boring. Yes, I hated school, the drills until we learned it, the handwriting, the spelling lists, the homework and book reviews. Kids that got bad grades were mortified. The bad boys got paddled and everyone was scared to death to get sent to the principle’s office. Discipline was in force. It was not fun, but an excellent education in a public school in a small town in Louisiana.
It took me a few seconds...then it hit me. LOL
See my tagline; this is what we may be headed for in 10-20 years...and it won’t look pretty.
87-88 was my first year of school and though I have none of my own I’d consider HS’ing if I did.
We’re their now. lpts of GenXers like me are now in power.
I’m part of GenY. (1980-1996)
Fun fact: 2016 marks the first year in which members of my generation could conceivably run for President.
Heck, the day I see someone of my generation elected president, it may well be the first Communist administration.
I’m fairly sure The Boomers own that one. Several that ones.
“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.”
that is um right and stuff or something...I went tu skool a real long time ago and stuff, long before they is be spent real moneys on ejukashun, if only they is be spent enuf, and yused books not from the 70s, I wood is be able to reeds and rites and do sums now
While most journalists write at the fifth grade level.
I have a cousin whose daughter just graduated from high school. She kept posting on FB.....go read my book! So I did. Painful. That is the only word to describe it. Horrible spelling. No continuity. Thought process jumping all over the place. No punctuation, etc.
I could write and spell better than she can in the 4th grade.
If she is indicative of what is coming out of our schools we are in real trouble.
That explains the mess we're in.
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