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Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently—Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest Tuesday, February 22, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) - Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.
In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009—the latest year available—only 32 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned a “proficient” rating while another 2 percent earned an “advanced” rating. The other 66 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned ratings below “proficient,” including 44 percent who earned a rating of “basic” and 22 percent who earned a rating of “below basic.”
The test also showed that the reading abilities of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders had not improved at all between 1998 and 2009 despite a significant inflation-adjusted increase in the amount of money Wisconsin public schools spent per pupil each year.
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Expressing one’s own masculinity is a crime!
Yet somehow, I bet the Catholic school and other private school kids read proficiently, despite less “spending” per student.
Hmmmm.....wonder why.....
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Did you read the signs they had at the protest last week? Or at some of the characters out on the capitol square?
No wonder the kids can’t read ;-)
And I expect that about one-third of the teachers there can’t read, either.
It’s a real puzzle. I mean they spend all that time reading their bibles.
Kind of tells you where the teachers are and it’s not teaching.
Difficult to comprehend or appreciate, inasmuch as I and my three children were proficient readers before we attended day one of elementary school. How does one prevent a child of ordinary curiosity from learning to read? Possibly it is accomplished by failing to read to them, to provide them with books, to help them learn the English alphabet, none of which requires a “certified” dues-paying teacher armed with a degree in “education.” My wife, equipped with a diploma from a small-town high school and normal mothering tendencies, accomplished all of these pedagogical tasks for our children.
(Absence of television may have helped).
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Well I wondered... lol!
Some kids do have trouble reading. I think it’s like 10% of the population has some form of dyslexia, and they need specialized reading programs. In California, the public schools will not even test for dsylexia and then they only provide reading help after a child is 2 years behind.
My daughter had speech problems, so we knew she was at risk for reading problems. By third grade, I knew she was only memorizing words (and she’s good at that), but she could not sound out words. The research I read said she would never be an efficient reader if she couldn’t sound out words.
We switched her to a private school with a reading program for dsylexia (Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory reading program), and her reading soared. She was taught phonics rules and rules for spelling. She’s a visual learner and she has trouble with her hearing. She couldn’t hear the sounds in words, and she had to be taught the spelling rules visually.
Now, she’s in 8th grade and she’s a reader. She’s still a slow reader. She uses audio books for her book reports because they are faster. However, she can keep up with her regular school reading.
In the summer, she doesn’t use audio books, and she reads for pleasure.
Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently...
Heck, they can barely mouth breath proficiently...
Spelling check.
Allowing students to carry guns and machetes would solve this problem. Really.
But I bet at last two-thirds of them have learned to be ashamed of their nation's history, and to worry about global warming, and to be ashamed if they are white (which Wisconsin is by a large majority).
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