On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > I was fortunate in that my grammer school education took place in the State > of Iowa, where, back in the 40's, we were extremely proud of being the > most literate state in the union with a 99.9% literacy rate. No > educational system is doing its students any life favors when the high > school graduating class is composed of 20+% functionally illiterate > students, but they graduate anyway because of the un-funded no child left > behind act. To be fair, graduating underperforming students has been a problem for much longer than we've had No Child Left Behind. And 99.9% seems an awfully high literacy rate for any sample the size of a state, even one that's proud of it. Perhaps Iowa residents, despite excellent language comprehension, weren't so good at statistics?
