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There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book. |
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Pretty much everything you have to say is about stupid negative shit porick. Shit that no one really gives a fuck about. We understand there is a lot of stupid people in the world, ok? so fuck off now |
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don't be so negative, man |
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Look on the bright side Americans, atleast you dont live in the potato and alcoholic shithole they call Ireland. |
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reference? |
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you don't really do justice to chris hedges's very interesting essay by posting a paragraph out of context without a link to read the rest. |
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got to stir up the porick-hatred first to reel them in. |
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you would rather trawl around for attention that talk about something interesting, ok |
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things seem hopeless around here. when i take a ride on the train, i have to listen to most kids under 25 use the word 'like' to join all of their phrases. 'and its just like, i was like ..'. the european tourists do it too. |
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Its just lame, and boring to whine and bitch about human stupidity and ignorance. You think we haven't figured that out by now? You think it helps to think about it? Talking about it is of no consequence, just like you porick, and the rest of us, all of us, of no consequence. The world is how it is, and it isn't changing. |
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ok, xlt if you want to see good news only go watch i for one really dig statistics be they good or bad. and poricks post was interesting imo. |
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lol. |
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good job we have superior intellects such as you to save us. |
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What in the name of fuck is that? |
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hehe, its a tv channel founded by some woman, that calls herself the supreme master. it shows only news of improvements of any kind and (of course) the speeches of the supreme master. its broadcatsed in many languages now all over the globe via satellite. |
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Pretty much everything you have to say is about stupid negative shit porick. Shit that no one really gives a fuck about. We understand there is a lot of stupid people in the world, ok? so fuck off now |
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How can there be 42million people in the US but 50million of them read at 4th or 5th grade level? Did I misread that!? |
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Yeah, I think so. There are roughly 305 million americans. It's 42 million American adults who cannot read, he says, but out of this 42 million, 20 percent have diplomas anyway. And then there are another 50 million, apart from the illiterate 42 million, who read at a 4th or 5th grade level. |
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i never learned to read or write, and i do ok. |
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assuming the article is actually factual and not made up leverage for certain purposes... reading and writing should be mandatory to pass third grade. thank the Liberals and No Child Left Behind (with the few Republican scum) for endorsing that one. what I would be interested in knowing is who actually owns Alternet. I'm betting it ends in "Soros" and begins with "George". just a hunch of mine in regards to who is behind all the "donations" from agenda driven non-profits. but what is funny about all of this, is that the majority (of most countries) was not literate for how many thousands of years again? oh right, since recorded history. |
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but what is funny about all of this, is that the majority (of most countries) was not literate for how many thousands of years again? That doesn't make it alright. We're in the 21st century, and we're talking about a developed nation which is the world's only superpower. It's inexcusable. what I would be interested in knowing is who actually owns Alternet. I'm betting it ends in "Soros" and begins with "George". What does it matter who owns Alternet? Surely it only matters who wrote the article, and their reputation, if it's the factual quality of the article you're getting at. And as it happens, wouldn't be someone I'd be cynical about. |
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Actually, there was broad bipartisan support for NCLB. Do you know much about this incarnation about the ESEA? It's based around achievement standards, holding schools accountable for student achievement by withdrawing federal funds, among other "remedies," to "failing schools"--in which students do not meet state-determined levels of proficiency in reading and math. One of the many, many criticisms of NCLB is that schools retain students who they deem unlikely to do well on the culture-bound standardized assessments. It turns into high-stakes testing for students, rather than for schools. While I think NCLB is garbage on a number of grounds, you seem to have confused with for something else (???) entirely. |
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I should say not all schools retain low-achieving students (as if beating them over the head with the exact same thing twice is going to do them any good), but there is a perverse incentive to do so. |
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haven't read the articles - can't be arsed - but presenting figures without information on the development of these numbers over time is pretty useless. maybe these figures present a relative all-time high (probably not though), but the point is: who knows? with the 'right' context these figures could be something you should be proud off. like the illiteracy wrt to the national debt per capita is way lower wrt to its third world counterparts. that'd be good, right? |
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no no it's fine, they can just lower the pass mark a little, then they will achieve a better grade, see? |
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And the rest are memorizing Ulysses, asking their mothers to buy more of their favorite juice, and are most likely sexually deprived by virtue of their "intellectual pursuits". A once unused family weight room , now a cerebral snipers foxhole for our cyber antagonist to shoot the sitting ducks in an agora of sub culture avatars resembling people of a world they will never visit nor understand. The previous run on sentence infuriates the Manchild into a fit of melancholy pretentiousness. |
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