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‘Rithmetic

March 1st, 2005 by Talboito

From a NY Times editorial on reading and writing.

A dismaying Carnegie Foundation report entitled “Reading Next” shows that the states have set the reading achievement bar very low so students can be moved from grade to grade - even though about 70 percent enter the first year of high school reading below grade level.

As I am of the “no such thing as bad grammar” school, I’ll be well to only criticize the muddled expression this sentence conveys.

I wonder how could the achievement bar could be set so low to have 70% both above and below.

Fail the schools, or fail the students.

Maybe fail the commissioned studies as well.

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