Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read

CBS NY ^

[Cboldt]

-- Illiteracy isn't even on their radar screens. --

In this case, I don't think "can't read" is synonymous with illiterate. The requirement is reading plus comprehension, and the reader is tested by answering questions that test comprehension.

No doubt, some of them are illiterate, meaning they don't recognize many common words put in front of them; but I;ll guess the majority suffer from limited vocabulary, which is slightly different from "illiterate". I'm going to guess they read at a 5th grade level, but 10th grade level is required to make it through the first year of college.

[razorback-bert]

I am guessing that a Regents’ diploma isn’t required to enter a NY college anymore.

[fatima]

Well you tried Marie.

[heye2monn]

More low-information voters. They don’t need to know how to read, just vote. The much-vaunted Axelrod outreach to inner cities won re-election for O’Bummer last year.

[fedupjohn]

She pulled him away from me, to protect his ego.

You mean you actually met an Obama Bimbo? LOL

[American in Israel]

I have an idea, lets set the money given to the schools per student back to where it was that they used to pass a reading test.

It will save Billions!

[9YearLurker]

With Bloomberg in the midst of an unprecedented third term as mayor, you’d think he’d have to bear some responsibility for this.

[Patriotic1]

Relearn? Or learn?

[1malumprohibitum]

What’s the big deal, Bloomie can just ban illiteracy. Problem solved.

[Elsiejay]

I and my three children were proficient readers at least a year prior to enrolling in grade one. We are not necessarily a whole lot smarter than the average, but just possibly being nurtured in a family environment was helpful. Government interventions, however well intentioned, are not adequate substitutes.

[Wanderer99]

“I had enough curiosity to teach myself how to read before I got to the 1st grade.

What is wrong with people?”

It’s called the Bell Curve.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

If Bloomturd had thousands of children, this would be “them”.

No “Reading, Written or Arithmetic”, kids! But especially, no 17 ounce Coke.

They reason these kids can’t read is because of COKE, and it ain’t the soda kind, Bloomturd.

[elkfersupper]

It’s called the Bell Curve.

A traditional Bell Curve would dictate that most people could read.

There would be a small segment that either could not read or could not read well, followed by a large segment that could read, followed by a small segment that was able to read exceptionally well.

[bikerman]

Dont worry Nanny Bloomy will read to them. Liberals just keeping liberals dumb.

[EinNYC]

What the hell do teacher pensions have to do with this? Are you always such a dumb@ss, or did you practice up before posting this? Teachers have to teach the curriculum they are given, they cannot deviate from it. How about PARENTS reading with their children or teaching them something besides how to operate a TV set?

[Track9]

But I bet they can recite demoCrap propaganda with complete fluency.

[BilLies]

According to the chart on page 5, 14.3% of the total students are White, apparently not hispanic, yet according to a census report for 2011 for NYC White non- hispanic, is 58%....where have all the childern gone?

[hal ogen]

If true...then why are the “educators” giving them a diploma? Insanity from the nutty “educators”.

[PUGACHEV]

I have mixed feelings about phonetics. I was educated by the nuns in the early ‘50, and, for some reason, they did not teach it. Instead, we learned to read “by sight”, that is, we were taught to recognize each word without analyzing it phonetically. To this day, I still remember the very first word we learned, “look”. See, the nun said, as she wrote it out on the blackboard, it has two eyes. The advantage was we mastered reading very quickly; the disadvantage was I have always had difficulty spelling.

[deport]

Maybe private/home schools.... Interesting point you bring up.